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

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.