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.

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.

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

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

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.

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

You're either making a market or disrupting a market. Entering a market is usually the wrong way to go.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.