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

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

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

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

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.

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.