Occupation: Editor Birth: August 14, 1952
It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference..
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design..
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable..
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far..
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do..
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and yo….
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work..
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for o….
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives..
We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob..
Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works.
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinit….
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes.".
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex..
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But ….
How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelud….
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with ….
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client..
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. ….
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time..
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing di….