We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

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

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

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

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

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.