Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

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

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

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

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.