“The systemic bias for continuity creates tolerance for the substandard.”

“[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.”

“Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.”

“Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”

“Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.”

“[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.”

“[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.”