Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

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