Max Boisot

"Data itself can be thought of as an energetic phenomenon that links us in our capacity as knowing subjects to an external physical world."

"Failure to properly conceptualize the nature of knowledge assets condemns firms."

"stocks of knowledge through which different value added services flow."

"The production of information and its use in transactions both incur costs and are thus subject to economizing. In the 1970s, there occurred a revival of interest among economists in the economics of …"

"It makes sense to describe a core competence as a complex adaptive system, located in the lower regions of the I-Space between an ordered regime in which knowledge assets get frozen into technologies …"

"Knowledge is a property of agents predisposing them to act in particular circumstances."

"Data is discrimination between physical states of things that may convey or not convey information to an agent. Whether it does so or not depends on the agent's prior stock of knowledge."

"Although in practice innovative coding is hard to disentangle from innovative theorizing, the latter, over time, has a far greater impact than the former on how we perceive and interpret the world."