Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

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

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

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

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 infinite game is played to keep playing.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

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

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

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.