Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

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.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

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.

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

We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'