Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

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

For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.