Top 150 Roger Spitz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

55. “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

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

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57. “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

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

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59. “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.”

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60. “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.”

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

— Roger Spitz

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

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

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64. “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.”

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

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

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

— Roger Spitz

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

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72. “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

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

— Roger Spitz

74. “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

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

— Roger Spitz

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

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

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

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83. “Change is slow, until it isn’t.”

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

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85. “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

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

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87. “If there is alignment among stakeholders, values, and actions, we have the agency to make things happen.”

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

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

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90. “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.”

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91. “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

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

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93. “The cow is facing its own existential crisis, as industrial cattle farming is being disrupted by alt proteins and plant-based milks that offer alternatives.”

— Roger Spitz

94. “Each technological and scientific turning point evolves into an ontological consideration.”

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95. “Foresight is the capacity to investigate the drivers of change and explore possible futures systemically to inform short-term decision-making.”

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96. “Tomorrow’s beef and dairy industries may face the same existential challenges as today’s fossil fuel industry.”

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97. “With limited accountability, misaligned incentives, and lagging legislation, today’s governance systems and structures do not align with the sustainability of humanity or the planet that hosts us.”

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98. “If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder.”

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99. “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

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

— Roger Spitz