Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

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

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.