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What humans can't engineer, evolution can.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
"Correct" is a property of small systems.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Releasing incomplete 'buggy' products is not cost-cutting desperation; it is the shrewdest way to complete a product when your customers are smarter than you are.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
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 you will never find a hive.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
We don't have a word for learning and teaching at the same time, but our schooling would improve if we did.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Bit by bit the logic of the network will overtake every we atom we deal with.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Organisms are self-causing agencies. Every self is a tautology: self-evident, self-referential, self-centered, and self-created.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Artificial complex systems will be deliberately infused with organic principles simply to keep them going.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; it obeyed the law of decreasing returns.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Technology has become our culture, our culture technology.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Everywhere networks go, intermediaries follow. The more nodes, the more middlemen.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The migration from ad hoc use to commercialisation cannot be rushed. To reach ubiquity you have to pass through sharing.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Animals are robots that work. Toons are simply robots without hard bodies.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)