Curation comes up when search stops working.

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

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

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?'

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

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