In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself..

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

The organization and the environment are in concert..

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. ….

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….

The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with ….

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex..

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far..

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time..

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….

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes.".

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work..

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But ….

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

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client..

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference..

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable..

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

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.