"Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship."

"The net demands wiser customers."

"Expertise now resides in fanatical customers. The world's best experts on your product or service, don't work for your company. They are your customers, or a hobby tribe."

"As in other technological evolutions, relationship tech will begin its innovation in the avant garde, then work back to the familiar."

"In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment."

"Outsiders act as employees, employees act as outsiders. New relationships blur the roles of employees and customers to the point of unity. They reveal the customer and the company as one."

"When information is plentiful, peers take over."

"The central economic imperative of the new economy is to amplify relationships."

"Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed."

"To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it."

"In a poetic sense the prime goal of the new economy is to undo – company by company, industry by industry – the industrial economy."

"If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die."

"The network economy has moved from change to flux."

"The net shifts from mass media to mess media."

"It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce."

"The big will have a different kind of bigness. The network economy encourages the middle space. It supplies technology (which the industrial age could not) to nurture mid-sized wonders."

"Everywhere networks go, intermediaries follow. The more nodes, the more middlemen."

"In the marketspace of networks, value flows in webs."

"People will inhabit places, but increasingly the economy inhabits a space."

"Not every success needs to be abandoned drastically, but every success needs to be questioned drastically."

"To maximise innovation, maximise the fringes."

"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."

"Definition of reality: the fastest possible version of all the details and degrees of freedom present."

"At the core of the notion of a superhuman intelligence - particularly the view that this intelligence will keep improving itself - is the essential belief that intelligence has an infinite scale. I find no evidence for this. Again, mistaking intelligence as a single dimension helps this belief, but we should understand it as a belief. There is no other physical dimension in the universe that is infinite, as far as science knows so far. Temperature is not infinite - there is finite cold and finite heat. There is finite space and time. Finite speed. Perhaps the mathematical number line is infinite, but all other physical attributes are finite.It stands to reason that reason itself is finite, and not infinite."

"The technium expands life’s fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands life’s fundamental goodness. Life’s increasing diversity, its reach for sentience, its long-term move from the general to the different, its essential (and paradoxical) ability to generate new versions of itself, and its constant play in an infinite game are the very traits and “wants” of the technium. Or should I say, the technium’s wants are those of life. But the technium does not stop there. The technium also expands the mind’s fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands the mind’s fundamental goodness. Technology amplifies the mind’s urge toward the unity of all thought, it accelerates the connections among all people, and it will populate the world with all conceivable ways of comprehending the infinite."

"The technium is the way the universe has engineered its own self-awareness. ... The universe is mostly empty because it is waiting to be filled with the products of life and the technium, with questions and problems and the thickening relations between bits that we call con scientia—shared knowledge—or consciousness. And whether we like it or not, we stand at the fulcrum of the future. We are in part responsible for the evolution of this planet proceeding onward."

"In the coming era, doing the exactly right next thing is far more fruitful than doing the same thing twice."

"The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control."

"Organisms are self-causing agencies. Every self is a tautology: self-evident, self-referential, self-centered, and self-created."

"Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this strangeness."

"Dying creatively is the hallmark of vivisystems."

"The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated."

"Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference."

"An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux."

"Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing."

"The capacity to evolve must be evolved itself. Evolution has been, and will keep on, exploring the space of possible evolutions. Organisms, memes, the whole ball of wax are only evolution's way to keep evolving."

"Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it."

"We want a machine that is constantly remaking itself."

"The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules."

"Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies."

""Correct" is a property of small systems."