Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

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

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

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.