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

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

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

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.