Compliment people behind their back. It’ll come back to you. - Kevin Kelly

We’ll unbundle books into their constituent bits and pieces and knit those into the web, but the higher-level organization of the book will be the focus for our attention — that remaining scarcity in our economy. A book is an attention unit. A

If you loan someone $20 and you never see them again because they are avoiding paying you back, that makes it worth $20.

Organisms are self-causing agencies. Every self is a tautology: self-evident, self-referential, self-centered, and self-created.