The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.