Your network is your filter.

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.

All because I fell in love with a madman.

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.