Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

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

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

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