When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.
Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.
The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.
When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.
