"It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting."

"What humans can't engineer, evolution can."

"Any highly evolved form is beautiful."

"The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win."

"There's nothing more addictive than being a god."

"Anything that can hold an electronic charge can hold a fiscal charge."

"In network economics, more brings more."

""It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy."

"A company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company."

"One can imagine the future shape of companies by stretching them until they are pure network. It will be hard at times to tell who is working for whom."

"Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine."

"Artificial complex systems will be deliberately infused with organic principles simply to keep them going."

"We don't have a word for learning and teaching at the same time, but our schooling would improve if we did."

"Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell."

"An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide."

"The future of machines is biology."

"A mind cannot possibly consider anything beyond what it can measure or calculate; without a body it can only consider itself. Without the interruptions of hellos from the eye, ear, tongue, nose, and finger, the evolving mind huddles in the corner picking its navel."

"The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip."

"We can only get smart things from stupid things."

"A system is anything that talks to itself."

"The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network."

"A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often."

"To err is human; to manage error is system."

"There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive."

"Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work."

"The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything."

"The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it."

"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."