If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.