Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.