Dan Lazaro

“twenty-first-century companies would have to resemble small jazz combos as opposed to orchestras. Their members have to become skilled in improvising quickly with one another to achieve shared objectives rather than following a rigid script.”
― Arindam K. Bhattacharya, Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism, and Technological Revolution

“The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“In a digital operating model, the employees do not deliver the product or service; instead, they design and oversee a software-automated, algorithm-driven digital “organization” that actually delivers the goods.”
― Marco Iansiti, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World