“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...”

“Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is...”

“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...”

“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory,Because you dont know what is there in the future,And all you need i...”

“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear somethin...”

“You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou.”

“Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.”

“Dont accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.”

“When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.”

“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”