“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”

“One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...”

“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.”

“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.”

“[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.”

“We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.”

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