Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

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

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

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.