Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.