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The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
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 looking at.
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.
I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.
Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?
Not too many people know who the editor is.
People don't read bylines.
Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.
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