Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Alfred P. Sloan, quoted in: Forbes, Forbes Incorporated, (1959), p. 54
Source: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 25 : Looking Eastward
Clayton M. Christensen (1999) Innovation and the general manager. p. 2
1990s
“Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.”
Preface, p. 11
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
On the duality of immigration in “Interview with Yiyun Li” https://nasslit.com/interview-with-yiyun-li-71b0c4662bf0 in The Nassau Literary Review (2018 May 3)
Source: Diet for a Small Planet, p. 66
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 72
Context: In a well worn metaphor, a parallel is drawn between the life of man and the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into the butterfly; but the comparison may be more just as well as more novel, if for its former term we take the mental progress of the race. History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another, itself but temporary. Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained, and of such there have been many.
