Large numbers of bottom-up ideas, properly filtered, always trump top-down thinking, no matter the industry or organization. - Salim Ismail

If you build communities and you do things in public," he says, "you don't have to find the right people, they find you.

The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects,

In his book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Kurzweil identified a hugely important and fundamental property of technology: when you shift to an information-based environment, the pace of development jumps onto an exponential growth path and price/performance doubles every year or two.