Bojan Tunguz

“Peace, however, came at an unprecedented price after Germany conquered France and briefly bestrode Europe. For the United States to maintain a hemispheric military posture could potentially leave Europe to the worst Europeans and Asia to the worst Asians—totalitarian dictatorships harnessing the tools of industrial modernity to achieve armed conquest and subjugation.”
― Stephen Wertheim, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy

“Oddly enough, our views were shaped quite a bit by the example of the thirteenth-century Mongol campaigns of conquest. Genghis Khan’s “hordes” – often smaller than the armies they faced – benefited immeasurably from what we today call near-real-time reporting on the disposition, composition, and movements of the enemy by their corps of “Arrow Riders,” a Pony-Express-like communication system that gave the Khan a consistent winning advantage.”
― John Arquilla, Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare

“One of the reasons why I’m now without a position, why I’ve been without a position for years, it’s quite simply because I have different ideas from these gentlemen who give positions to individuals who think like them.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Sophomoric forecasters sometimes make the mistake of assuming that just because something is hard to model they may as well ignore it.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't