Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

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

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

[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.