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

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

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

[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.

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