Network Quotes - page 7

Because information trumps mass, all commerce migrates to the network economy. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
The first thing the network economy reforms is our identity. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been, in the influence of network inventions will be as great, or greater. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
In the network economy, ever-less energy is needed to complete a single transaction, but ever-more effort is needed to agree on what pattern the transaction should follow. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
One can imagine the future shape of companies by stretching them until they are pure network. It will be hard at times to tell who is working for whom. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value of the network. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The law of plentitude is most accurately rendered thus: In a network, the more opportunities that are taken, the faster new opportunities arise. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
The network economy has moved from change to flux. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The network economy is founded on technology, but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential. View quote
Theodore Zeldin
It has to be well timed. It needs to have the right components that maybe contain emerging technologies or something like, say, when Doom came out -- the Network play -- there weren't many games like that. There was a really great 3D world that a lot of people hadn't seen. It was light-years ahead of Wolfenstein. It was shareware, so it had Internet distribution. We used the Internet to get it all over the place. So it used a lot of stuff that was just becoming popular at that time. id just capitalized on it. View quote
John Romero
The network called up and said 'We piggybacked you on the deal for another show,' I'm like 'Okay, so what you're saying to my writers is that they weren't picked up when they thought they were and now that they are it was because of something that has nothing to do with them. Okay. Great. Stop calling. View quote
Joss Whedon
If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. View quote
Andy Kaufman
If you do not care about networks, the networks will care about you, anyway. For as long as you want to live in society, at this time and in this place, you will have to deal with the network society. Because we live in the Internet Galaxy. View quote
Manuel Castells
In the network society, the space of flows dissolves time by disordering the sequence of events and making them simultaneous in the communication networks, thus installing society in structural ephemerality: being cancels becoming. View quote
Manuel Castells
The anti-globalization movement is not simply a network, it is an electronic network, it is an Internet-based movement. And because the Internet is its home it cannot be disorganized or captured. It swims like fish in the net. View quote
Manuel Castells
This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theory of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identified by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in various cultural and institutional manifestations, as the industrial society characterized the social structure of both capitalism and statism for most of the twentieth century. (Manuel Castells)
The origins of the Internet are to be found in ARPANET, a computer network set up by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in September 1969. ARPA was formed i 1958 by the Defense Department of the United States with the task of mobilizing research resources, particularly from the university world, toward building technological military superiority over the Soviet Union in the wake of the launching of the first Sputnik in 1957. View quote
Manuel Castells
the Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network. View quote
Manuel Castells
This volume explores the construction of collective identities as they relate to social movements and power struggles in the network society. It also deals with the transformation of the state, politics, and democracy under the conditions of globalization and new communication technologies. The understanding of these processes aims to provide new perspectives for the study of social change in the Information Age. View quote
Manuel Castells
The ongoing transformation of communication technology in the digital age extends the reach of communication media to all domains of social life in a network that is at the same time global and local, generic and customised in an ever-changing pattern. View quote
Manuel Castells