Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” – Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)

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Pete Seeger has gotten a lot of flack for being against large-scale, united political movements. But I think he's right about one thing. You can't really "save the world" or "make the world a better place" with one big program that everyone follows. It's probably best to think of things as an "ecosystem." Decentralized, self-organizing, self-maintaining systems are much more likely to succeed than programs that require everyone to follow a rigid set of rules.

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