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

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

We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively spea….

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent..

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without bein….

Managing bottom-up change is its own art..

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the….

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

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable..

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

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are l….

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes.".

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, be….

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

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment..

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ab….

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better..

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 only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention..

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….