“The law of plentitude is most accurately rendered thus: In a network, the more opportunities that are taken, the faster new opportunities arise.”
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)
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“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5
“Every opportunity seized launches at least two new opportunities.”
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)
Address to the United Nations (1963)
Context: When we talk of the equality of man, we find, also, a challenge and an opportunity; a challenge to breathe new life into the ideals enshrined in the Charter, an opportunity to bring men closer to freedom and true equality. and thus, closer to a love of peace.
The goal of the equality of man which we seek is the antithesis of the exploitation of one people by another with which the pages of history and in particular those written of the African and Asian continents, speak at such length.
Exploitation, thus viewed, has many faces. But whatever guise it assumes, this evil is to be shunned where it does not exist and crushed where it does.
“Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.”
“Crisis is the portal to new opportunity.”
Kratu-A Novel ( Page 107 )
“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
““Pragmatism” is only a new term to designate “Opportunism” in philosophy.”
Anti-Pragmatism; an Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy (1909), p. xv.