Source: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
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“Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.”
“A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.”
Source: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
“Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works”
Source: Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization
“Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented”
“An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.”
“Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.”
“It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.”
“Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.”
Source: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
“Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.”
“The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.”
“In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.”
“Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.”
“Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.”
“Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.”
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”
Source: What Technology Wants
Source: What Technology Wants
Source: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
“I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.”