Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.