Jukka Aakula

“One key adaptation of a malignant cancer is to increase the rate of mutations. A fast-growing tumor isn’t just one type of cancer cell that is rapidly proliferating. It is a boiling cauldron of hyper-mutating cell lines that compete against each other. Another adaptive strategy for a cancer cell is to disperse so that it can compete against normal cells rather than against other cancer cells—metastasis.”
― David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

“Representation is a principle which is fundamentally just and vital to the successful conduct of industry…Surely it is not consistent for us as Americans to demand democracy in government and practice autocracy in industry…With the developments of industry what they are today there is sure to come a progressive evolution from autocratic single control, whether by capital, labor, or the state,”
― David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

“The truth is that we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success in most countries, and that is precisely the heart of the problem: in the absence of information, anyone can believe what they want.”
― Jean Tirole, Economics for the Common Good

“the collective reputation is a public good for the group. Defending the collective reputation entails an entirely private cost but a benefit that is shared by the whole community. This is why there is a tendency toward free-riding.”
― Jean Tirole, Economics for the Common Good