“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 being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.”

“The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.”

“Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it.” Devon Brooks”

“A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.”

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

“An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.”

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

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

“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 ability to evolve in certain directions.”

“An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.”

“All imaginable futures are not equally possible.”