"It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce."

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”