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

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

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.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.

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