If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.