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

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.

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

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

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.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?