The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

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.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.