"The Internet fundamentally changes the practicalities of large organization projects. Things that previously seemed silly and impossible" Aaron Swartz
"The Internet is the first medium to make such projects of mass collaboration possible. Certainly numerous people send quotes to Oxford for compilation in the Oxford English Dictionary, but a full-time staff is necessary sort and edit these notes to build the actual book (not to mention all the other work that must be done). On the Internet, however, the entire job — collection, summarization, organization, and editing — can be done in spare time by mutual strangers." Aaron Swartz
