"Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this strangeness."

“The surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness.”

“The net shifts from mass media to mess media.”

“There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive.”

“In a poetic sense the prime goal of the new economy is to undo – company by company, industry by industry – the industrial economy.”

“The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated.”

“It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.”