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.

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.