The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

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.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

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