Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

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