What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

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

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.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.