[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.

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.

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

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.