“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

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

“This linking together in turn lets us tap our cognitive surplus, the trillion hours a year of free time the educated population of the planet has to spend doing things they care about. In the 20th century, the bulk of that time was spent watching television, but our cognitive surplus is so enormous that diverting even a tiny fraction of time from consumption to participation can create enormous positive effects.”

“We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.”

“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”

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

“For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.”