Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.