I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

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.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.