We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

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.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.