Quoted: What the laggards have failed to grasp is that what matters most today is not a company's competitive advantage at a point in time, but ...

Briliant idea -- build an idea market for your company, enabling a structured approach to weighting ideas generated "from the trenches". Some good examples of the idea working are cited here.

Quoted: A Linux-style approach taps masses of people for inspiration.

Quoted: Wright -- who like Barton is attacking a consumer Internet segment -- said there are advantages to staying under the radar.

"As you get deeper and deeper into development of a new service, you discover nuances," he said. "And once you go public you want to have continuity to what you are saying."

Quoted: Hurricane Katrina is expected to cut employment by 400,000 jobs, slash economic growth by as much as a full percentage point this year and result in a spike in gasoline prices of possibly 40 percent this month.