The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our…

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

— Anonymous

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

— Edward Teller

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe…

— Sanjay Kumar

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

— Randy Pausch

“Ignorance is not linear, it's exponential.”

— Spuds Crawford

Life itself is exponential.

— Jeff Rich

Modeling an exponential process necessarily produces a wide range of outcomes. In the case of COVID-19, that's because the spread of the disease depends…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Everywhere, the rate of change is so fast that large U.S. companies are in constant danger of disruption. Not from competition in China or…

— Peter Diamandis

“Many organizations and militaries use VUCA as an acronym to describe the disruptive state of the world, given its Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity.…

— Roger Spitz

“Rather than using armies of people or large physical plants, Exponential Organizations are built upon information technologies that take what was once physical in…

— Salim Ismail

“the fantastic power and ultimate absurdity of unchecked exponential growth.”

— Geoffrey West

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

— Mitch Kapor

Atheists don't solve exponential equations because they don't believe in higher powers.

— Nikhil Saluja

“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise…

— Geoffrey West

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people…

— Mitch Kapor