Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.