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.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen