“design is so important because chaos is so hard”

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”

“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because neighbors are so many”

“People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.”

“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

“On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.”