Whiplash Quotes

“Children should—and do, intuitively—want to learn. It’s up to us, the blundering, wrongheaded adults, to frame the lessons correctly.”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“We imagine we’ll hear history when it calls. When it doesn’t, we return to our daily lives, our moral mettle still intact. But maybe history doesn’t call, or maybe you have to be listening closely to hear it. To prioritize diversity over perceived merit—the colorblind assessment of ability that has never really been colorblind at all—is to recognize that strategic imperatives can’t be the sole benchmark by which we distribute society’s prizes. There’s an increasing sense—among the millennials who fill our lecture halls, but out in the rougher world of cubicles and delivery vans and hospital waiting rooms as well—that it’s not enough to be right, or profitable, or talented. You must also be just. It’s”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“The new rule, then, is to embrace risk.”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“You don’t need to own anything anymore,” he says. “Not a factory, not a warehouse, not even an office.” In other words, Casey allows a company to move the atoms offshore. What’s left? “You need an idea, and you need to be able to market it. That’s it.”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“Instead of rules or even strategy, the key to success is culture. Whether we are talking about our moral compass, our world view, or our sensibility and taste, the way that we set these compasses is through the culture that we create and how we communicate that culture through events, e-mail, meetings, blog posts, the rules that we make, and even the music that we play. It is more of a system of mythologies than some sort of mission statement or slogan. —Joi Ito”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“The future,” science-fiction writer William Gibson once said, “is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.”21”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“Resnick and Siegel both agreed that learning to code wasn’t just about training the computer engineers of the future. It was a terrifically efficient method to learn how to learn. “Learning to code helps you organize, express, and share your ideas—just like learning to write,” says Resnick. “That’s important for everyone.” Siegel”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“One of the problems is that our traditional educational system—and most of our business training—reward focus and execution, limiting the opportunity to become a “visionary.”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“If you were to condense Earth’s history into a single year, land-dwelling animals come onstage around December 1, and the dinosaurs don’t go extinct until the day after Christmas. Hominids start walking on two feet around 11:50 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and recorded history begins a few nanoseconds before midnight. And”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“Are you ready for brain implants? Wait, don’t answer. Change doesn’t care if you’re ready. Change outpaced humans sometime late in the last century.”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

“In other words, the rule about great scientific advances is that to make them you have to break the rules. Nobody has ever won a Nobel Prize by doing what they’re told, or even by following someone else’s blueprints. In”
― Joi Ito, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future