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.

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

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

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

Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.