Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you’ll be much closer to the truth.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

We owe the low price of electricity today to the power grid, the network that emergedthrough these pairwise connections, linking all producers and consumersinto a single network. It allows cheaply produced power to be instantlytransported anywhere. Electricity hence offers a wonderful example of thehuge positive impact networks have on our life

The Fourth Law: While team success requires diversity and balance, a single individual will receive credit for the group’s achievements.

The Fifth Law: With persistence success can come at any time.

Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.

Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.

The Second Law: Performance is bounded,but success is unbounded.

The Third Law: Previous success × fitness = future success.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.