Clients are BECOMING more global; they're REALIZING that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the LOCAL regional clients BUYING the local regional flavors. It's EVERYBODY asking for everything.

We must limit the PERCEPTION that some institutions are either too big or too INTERCONNECTED to FAIL.

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to MOZART's symphonies and EINSTEIN's view of the universe, EMERGE from the same SOURCE: the relentless dynamic toil of LARGE populations of interconnected neurons.

Advances in TECHNOLOGY - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For INSTANCE, our interconnected WORLD depends on ELABORATE networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so FORTH.

Every street LIGHT will be INTERCONNECTED to the Internet because we can SAVE when CAR is not PASSING. Automobile will all be connected, so driverless car much safer.

When I was with the Doobies, the style of MUSIC was that we all went over the falls with chord progressions, TRYING to MAKE things as complex and interconnected as POSSIBLE.