Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

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

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

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

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.