"Because skill guilds constrain (and defend) an organisation, it is often far easier to start a new organisation than to change a successful old one."

"Letting go at the top is not an act against perfection, but against short-sightedness."

"There can be no expertise in innovation unless there is also expertise in demolishing the ensconced."

"Because information trumps mass, all commerce migrates to the network economy."

"Bit by bit the logic of the network will overtake every we atom we deal with."

"To prosper, feed the web first."

"Eventually technical standards will become as important as laws."

"As more of the economy migrates to intangibles, more of the economy will require standards."

"In the network economy, ever-less energy is needed to complete a single transaction, but ever-more effort is needed to agree on what pattern the transaction should follow."

"In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value."

"Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms."

"The first thing the network economy reforms is our identity."

"Releasing incomplete 'buggy' products is not cost-cutting desperation; it is the shrewdest way to complete a product when your customers are smarter than you are."

"The migration from ad hoc use to commercialisation cannot be rushed. To reach ubiquity you have to pass through sharing."

"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention."

"Following the free also works in the other direction. If one way to increase product value is to make products free, then many things now free may contain potential value not yet perceived."

"If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free."

"All items that can be copied, both tangible and intangible, adhere to the law of inverted pricing and become cheaper as they improve."

"Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness."

"A network is a possibility factory."

"The law of plentitude is most accurately rendered thus: In a network, the more opportunities that are taken, the faster new opportunities arise."

"The more interconnected a technology is, the more opportunities it spawns for both use and misuse."

"The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly."

"Every time a closed system opens, it begins to interact more directly with other existing systems, and therefore acquires all the value of those systems."

"In the network economy the more plentiful things become, the more valuable they become."

"In the past, an innovationÕs momentum indicated significance. Now, in the network environment, where biological behaviour reigns, significance precedes momentum."

"Technology has become our culture, our culture technology."

"Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything."

"A good definition of a network is organic behaviour in a technological matrix."

"It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither."

"In the network economy, success is self-reinforcing; it obeys the law of increasing returns. The great innovation of Silicon Valley is not the wowie-zowie hardware and software it has invented. Silicon Valley's greatest "product" is the social organisation of its companies, and most important, the tangled web of former jobs, intimate colleagues, information leakage from one firm to the next, rapid company life cycles, and agile e mail culture. This social web, suffused into the warm hardware of jelly bean chips and copper neurons, creates a network economy."

"In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; it obeyed the law of decreasing returns."

"The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result."

"Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value of the network."

"The great benefits reaped by the new economy in the coming decades will be due in large part to exploring and exploiting the power of decentralised and autonomous networks."

"At present there is far more to be gained by pushing the boundaries of what can be done by the bottom than by focusing on what can be done at the top."

"Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices."

"Complete surrender to the bottom is not what embracing swarm power is about."

"The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment."

"The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness."

"Dumb parts, properly constituted into a swarm, yield smart results."

"When we permit any object to transmit a small amount of data and to receive input from its neighborhood, we change an inert object into an animated node."

"We are connecting everything to everything."

"The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works."

"As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world."

"As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been, in the influence of network inventions will be as great, or greater."

"Communication – which in the end is what the digital technology and media are all about – is not just a sector of the economy. Communication IS the economy."