537 quotes found
Time after the present
“Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.”
“Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.”
“Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.”
“Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security.Sources are split in their assessment of the importance of nuclear weapo...”
“It was one of those rare moments where one has a vision of the scope of the wild ocean. Not just small cylinders firing to keep a tiny engine running, but rather the giant, massive gears of nature,...”
“What we're now starting to see, as online retailers begin to capitalize on their extraordinary economic efficiences, is the shape of a massive mountain of choice emerging where before there was jus...”
“In fact, as these companies offered more and more (simply because they could), they found that demand actually followed supply. The act of vastly increasing choice seemed to unlock demand for that ...”
“What Vann-Adibe had discobered was that the aggregate market for niche music was huge, and effectively unbounded. He called this the '98 Percent Rule.' As he later put it to me, "In a wordl of almo...”
“There's a value in that space - rent, overhead, staffing costs, etc. - that has to be paid back by a certain number of inventory turns per month. In other words, the onesies and twosies waste space...”
“The three main observactions - (1) the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize; (2) it's now within reach economically; (3) all those niches, when aggregated, can make up a signific...”
“What people intuitively grasped was the new efficiences in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing were changing the definition of what was commercially viable across the board. The best way to ...”
“... the emerging digital entertainment economy is going to be radically different from today's mass market. If the twentieth-century entertainment industry was about hits, the twenty-first will be ...”
“To commit to loving a person for five minutes is easy. To commit to loving a person for the rest of your life, after you have met them, is a strong commitment. But when you commit to loving a perso...”
“By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.”
“Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its structures of command to make the country, and itself, less command-driven. A system whose main afflict...”
“Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them”
“I feel like Im going to get in a fight one day about the validity of falling in love so fast. Not a heated one because why would I give a shit if some other person gets it or not? Right now, its no...”
“The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.”
“If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.”
“I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.”
