I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.