When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

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

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

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.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

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