Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.