Top 150 Roger Spitz Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Whether personal or organizational, building capacity to effectively deal with change creates resilience, and without exceptional resilience there is no antifragility.”

— Roger Spitz

52. “Anything we think we know today in relation to AI will change tomorrow.”

— Roger Spitz

53. “In any situation, we can use our agency to define our purpose and seek meaning.”

— Roger Spitz

54. “Information, misinformation, disinformation, and data: We might not know what to call it, but we certainly are drowning in it.”

— Roger Spitz

55. “For most of human history, space was unachievable; now it’s merely dangerous.”

— Roger Spitz

56. “The permission to wander around, imagine, ask questions, and challenge assumptions allows magic to happen and new possibilities to emerge.”

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57. “Reshoring, backshoring, and onshoring are now replacing offshoring and outsourcing.”

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58. “The future is not simply a continuation of the past, nor should education be. To serve its purpose, education must be relevant to the future, helpful, and fulfilling.”

— Roger Spitz

59. “Modernity has become algorithms. Our reality is now intercepted by the exploration and exploitation of our psychic cues that rewrite history by rerouting consumption, elections, public opinion, and civil war.”

— Roger Spitz

60. “You can’t rely on modeling uncertainties to deliver certainty.”

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61. “As the pace of change accelerates, industry life cycles, company life cycles, and product life cycles are compressed.”

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62. “As advances in AI, machine learning, and neural networks evolve, incomprehensibility will reach even higher levels – exposing these complex systems to both human and machine errors.”

— Roger Spitz

63. “Inflection points are moments when major shifts from one stage to another take place. They can be seen in social movements, technological innovations, and business transitions. Regardless of context, one cannot merely continue the same behavior after an inflection point.”

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64. “Power in space will always influence power on Earth.”

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65. “When it comes to our world and existential risks, we face the “Big UN”: UNcoordinated, UNaccountable, UNprepared, and UNderinvested.”

— Roger Spitz

66. “While the rhythm of change may appear slow, the tempo of disruption is extremely fast.”

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67. “The issue with uncompromising reliance on flawed assumptions is not being wrong, but being unprepared for alternative outcomes.”

— Roger Spitz

68. “The fight against climate change is often an opportunity for banks, financial institutions, and ratings agencies to develop a new marketing product, a new green bond, and a new net-zero tracker index fund as often as they can.”

— Roger Spitz

69. “We must remember that agency emerges through choice, not structure.”

— Roger Spitz

70. “Climate intelligence enables action-oriented, climate-aligned decisions to mitigate risks, build resilient adaptation, and identify emerging opportunities.”

— Roger Spitz

71. “If we are to remain relevant, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”

— Roger Spitz

72. “There is an inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, and an increasing cost of assuming a predictable world.”

— Roger Spitz

73. “At every moment, we have the agency to do something different. Moving forward, by both choice and necessity, we must integrate increasingly imaginative activities.”

— Roger Spitz

74. “In a systemic world, there is no such thing as discrete or isolated events – impacts cascade and spill over. Drivers of disruption collide, intersect, and amplify.”

— Roger Spitz

75. “Complexity’s biggest dangers arise when we are mired in assumptions and boxed into existing sectors and industries instead of noticing new patterns on the fringe and changes emerging over time.”

— Roger Spitz

76. “Complexity flies in the face of what is merely complicated, imposing limitations to our understanding.”

— Roger Spitz

77. “An organization, its business, sector, or purpose do not exist per se. Reality becomes its perception.”

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78. “Futurists imagine multiple possible futures, as quantum physicists are set on multiple present realities.”

— Roger Spitz

79. “Today, even tangibles are intangibles – cars, planes, and computers rely on software. They are essentially digital assets under the disguise of a mechanical body, and much of their value is intangible.”

— Roger Spitz

80. “The world is shifting from one of credentials to one of capabilities.”

— Roger Spitz

81. “As AI continues to develop, machines could become increasingly legitimate in autonomously making strategic decisions, an area where humans currently lead.”

— Roger Spitz

82. “Pre-defined boxes and categorical, rigid sub-segments do not reflect our complex systemic world, where everything is interrelated and interconnected.”

— Roger Spitz

83. “Horizon scanning enables you to catch a glimpse of the future by observing fragments embedded in the present.”

— Roger Spitz

84. “Looking forward, the question is not how much machines will augment human decision-making, but whether humans will remain involved in the process at all.”

— Roger Spitz

85. “As sustainability is the new digital, every company needs to be an energy company.”

— Roger Spitz

86. “Humans need to enhance their capabilities, as machines are learning fast, gaining increasingly higher-level human functions.”

— Roger Spitz

87. “Like any foundation, antifragility requires continued care to remain resilient to new hazards, which constantly emerge to erode it.”

— Roger Spitz

88. “China’s race to AI supremacy will have a profound impact on world order, disorder, and global AI geopolitics.”

— Roger Spitz

89. “Could the most fundamental edge humans have over machines be irrationality?”

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90. “There are new parameters for “unprecedented,” as unprecedented becomes the norm.”

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91. “Disruption itself is generally neither good nor bad; its impact depends on one’s perspective and the nature and timing of one’s response.”

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92. “The cost of being prepared pales in comparison with the reputational, financial, and human costs of lacking anticipation.”

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93. “For businesses to survive, they will need to build organizational resilience for climate change, cyber, technology, and space as part of a broader existential risk management strategy.”

— Roger Spitz

94. “Creativity will become even more important as the world requires new solutions to new problems.”

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95. “Disruption is no longer merely a single or recurring event, but a steady state, expanding its impact. In short, while disruption has always existed, it is now disrupting itself.”

— Roger Spitz

96. “We define Greenaissance as an era of renewal with momentous innovation and investment opportunities aligned across fields with the common objective of sustainable energy transition.”

— Roger Spitz

97. “Systemic disruption requires us to accept that there may be no measurable data to fully substantiate our understanding of those disruptions. Imaging and exploring the multiplicity of potential futures which may arise from disruptions is a creative exercise, not a number-crunching one.”

— Roger Spitz

98. “To achieve alignment by stakeholders across time horizons, long-term thinking needs to prevail in a world of endemic short-termism.”

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99. “Success in our changing work landscape boils down to one simple concept: “Relevance.”

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100. “For the first time in history, we have no answers to many of the fundamental questions around how the world or humanity might look a decade or two ahead.”

— Roger Spitz