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

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

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

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.