Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

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

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

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

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally