Quotes from How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
It is safe to say, however, that accelerating change and increasing complexity multiply the value of intellectual capital. The individual’s ability to learn, adapt, and think, independently and creatively, is at a premium.
During the Renaissance, individuals with a medieval mind-set were left behind.
Now in the Information Age, medieval- and industrial-era thinkers are threatened with extinction.
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Now we are awash in an unprecendented, unrelenting overflow of data. In five hundred years we’ve moved from a world where everything was certain and nothing changed to a world where nothing seems certain and everything changes.
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever too.
