Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.