The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.