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.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

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.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

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

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

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