The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.