An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

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

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

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 the hive.

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.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.