Top 280 Roger Spitz Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?”

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252. “No exploration of the past should be confused with a prediction.”

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253. “Uncertainty is an inherent trait of the future.”

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254. “Slack, buffers, and redundancies give you the space for unconstrained imagination.”

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255. “In an era of predictable unpredictability and untamed algorithms, agility allows us to emerge in the here and now, without sacrificing our longer-term vision.”

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256. “When manipulated, personalized information becomes even more convincing, and truth evades objectivity, morphing into a subjective reality for every individual.”

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257. “Controlling the internet is a powerful tool for increasingly confident autocracies.”

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258. “In our disruptive world, the smallest changes can cause large impacts.”

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259. “To harness the virtues of disagreement, you need trust. Without trust, alignment is impossible.”

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260. “This is a guide to embracing the futures with resilience and foresight.”

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261. “Imagination is infinite.”

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262. “As you dive into life, whether there are changes, or constants, or changing constants or constant changes, they are one and the same.”

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263. “Once achieved, maintaining relevance requires constant listening, questioning, prototyping and testing.”

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264. “To contrast Naisbitt’s megatrends, the Disruptive Futures Institute coined the term “metaruptions”. A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions... Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”

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265. “Opportunities arise by moving from silos to systems and rethinking the structures that incentivize our actions.”

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266. “How can the world find global solutions to systemic challenges like pandemics, climate mitigation and AI regulation? Regional approaches are inadequate for holistic issues.”

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267. “We must teach data literacy to our students, lest they emerge illiterate in our accelerating info-ruption.”

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268. “Trend analysis can be useful, but trends only describe our past, implying some degree of continuity.”

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269. “Innovation arises from cognitive diversity. In productive arguments, opinions are exchanged, ideas are debated and beliefs are challenged. Beneficial arguments make us wiser.”

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270. “The smarter you iterate, the faster you’ll unravel the maze. Each attempt, even if they fail, reveals insights and narrows the ambiguity. Success emerges in retrospect.”

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271. “Consider systemic interconnections and next-order implications from initial change.”

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272. “Uncertainty is a prerequisite to our agency and freedom.”

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273. “Be empowered to overcome challenges and seize new opportunities for success and growth.”

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274. “Despite the unpredictability of our complex world, focusing on constants is still insightful. Relative to the variabilities of change, the unwavering direction and consistent rhythm of constants stand out.”

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275. “Slack is inexpensive when you don’t need it but exorbitantly costly when you don’t have it. Incorporate buffer space to enhance agility.”

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276. “Critically assess the drivers of any predictions to ascertain the ratio of assumptions to knowledge.”

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277. “Healthcare is shifting from diagnosis to prevention and augmentation, blurring the line between human and technology.”

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278. “The future does not exist today, so we have the opportunity to imagine it, shape it and navigate towards it.”

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279. “Small shifts at the appropriate levels can produce greater changes throughout systems. Incentives are strong leverage points because they represent the rules of the system and its boundaries.”

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280. “Being anticipatory allows us to better envision and drive the futures ahead.”

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281. “In an unknown situation, humility about one’s knowledge is paramount.”

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282. “Given the inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, the cost of maintaining business as usual rises significantly.”

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283. “A single triggering phenomenon can generate an avalanche of disproportionate – and seemingly disparate – impacts when the simultaneous ripple effects collide.”

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284. “Intuition is neither a luxury nor a shortcut; in deeply uncertain environments, intuition is a necessity.”

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285. “We are not helpless victims unable to make decisions – we have the power to shape our own futures.”

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286. “As we face inseparable technological and existential conditions, we enter an era of Techistentialism. AI will increasingly provide insights that enable more-informed predictive decision-making, humans should remain wary of an inadvertent reliance on prescriptive algorithms dictating specific decisions. Complex and uncertain environments inherently involve unknown unknowns; these are situations where we need to be agile despite the lack of immediate answers.”

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287. “Through info-ruption, anything can change in an instant.”

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288. “To remain relevant in the age of AI, we must actively build antifragile foundations that are resilient under stress, and strengthen with shocks.”

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289. “Certainty is fleeting, but through experimentation, systems innovation and trial-and-error, instructive patterns emerge as guidance.”

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