Kevin Kelly

Because skill guilds constrain (and defend) an organisation, it is often far easier to start a new organisation than to change a successful old one.

There can be no expertise in innovation unless there is also expertise in demolishing the ensconced.

One of the chief chores in the next economy is to restore the symmetry of knowledge.

At present there is far more to be gained by pushing the boundaries of what can be done by the bottom than by focusing on what can be done at the top.

Expertise now resides in fanatical customers. The world's best experts on your product or service, don't work for your company. They are your customers, or a hobby tribe.

The first thing the network economy reforms is our identity.

If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium it will eventually stagnate and die.

The big will have a different kind of bigness. The network economy encourages the middle space. It supplies technology (which the industrial age could not) to nurture mid-sized wonders.

As more of the economy migrates to intangibles, more of the economy will require standards.

Everywhere networks go, intermediaries follow. The more nodes, the more middlemen.

To maximise innovation, maximise the fringes.

In the past, an innovationÕs momentum indicated significance. Now, in the network environment, where biological behaviour reigns, significance precedes momentum.