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

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.

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.

It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep.

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.