A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

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

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