Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

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

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

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.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.