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.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

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

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors