Across Quote by Tom Chatfield

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only…

— Voltaire

“Unlike machines, human can be unpredictable.”

— Dan Brown

“The world is a lively place enough, in which we must accommodate ourselves to circumstances, sail with the stream as glibly as we can,…

— Charles Dickens

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

— Geoffrey Chew

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

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