[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.

One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

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

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

What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

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