5 Quotes by Joshua Cooper Ramo

The main lesson is that just because something is too terrible to contemplate doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen.

What is true for the machines all around us now is true for us too: We are what we are connected to. And mastery of that connection turns out to be the modern version of Napoleon’s coup d’oeil, the essential skill of the age. Centuries.

The delay that Weizenbaum named, between an effort to achieve something and its realization, is the essence of being human.

In connected systems, power is defined by both profound concentration and by massive distribution.

In our age of connection, every one of us is a node. We sit on that tense, stretched surface between center and periphery. When we say Connection changes the nature of an object, this is the exact balance we have to contemplate.