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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"
"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."
"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."
"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it."
"Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb."
"The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time."
"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."
"It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time."
"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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