The best answer we can give to Hippocrate’s “Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile” is simply “Ars est celare artem”, which means “It is true art to conceal art”.

“Twentieth-century institutions built and protected knowledge stocks—proprietary resources that no one else could access. The more the business environment changes, however, the faster the value of what you know at any point in time diminishes.”

“I am convinced that the nations and people who master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural and political superpowers of the next century. “