“This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. Its not that the network itself is smart; its that the individuals get smarter because theyre connected to the network.”

“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading materialmuch of it unrelated to...”

“Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesa certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiositybut they also share one other defining attribute. ...”

“Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platf...”

“Most world-historic events - great military battles, political revolutions-are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chron...”

“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; ...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.”

“Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.”

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”

“We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.”