Don Tapscott Quotes

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Your network is your filter.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Those who grew up digital have different brains.

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow