Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

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.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.