It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

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

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.