Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.