network quotes

   The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning† The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

-Gleick,James
  In the NewYork Times Magazine,1 May.

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