In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

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.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.