Evgeny Morozov:

We want to cultivate voters who are less susceptible to propaganda than Shirky's beloved South Korean teenagers. Very little suggests that we are enjoying greater success in this quest than we did in the golden era of network television. The environment of media scarcity produced voters who, on average, were far less partisan and far better informed about politics than are today's voters.

David Isenberg:

The shift from scarcity to plenty is often the harbinger of new value propositions.

Decius:

I said I'd do something about this, and I am.

Paul Graham:

Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done.

Richard Haass:

Let's not kid ourselves. We're not going to find some wonderful thing that's going to deliver large positive results at modest costs. It's not going to happen.

Atul Gawande:

This is a deeper, more fundamental problem than we acknowledge. The truth is that the volume and complexity of the knowledge that we need to master has grown exponentially beyond our capacity as individuals. Worse, the fear is that the knowledge has grown beyond our capacity as a society. [...] We're not talking about a problem rooted in economics. We're talking about a problem rooted in scientific complexity.

The most interesting, under-discussed, and potentially revolutionary aspect of the law is that it doesn't pretend to have the answers.