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.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.