A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

We have to get better at believing the impossible.

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