The Edge recently asked today’s most eminent thinkers, WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION? YOUR ALGORITHM?

The answers spanned from the political:
“EVOLUTION = TYRANNY (Mutation Without Representation)” (Drew Endy)

to the pragmatic:
“(Number of Solutions/Number of Problems) > (1.01/year) = PROGRESS” (Kevin Kelly)

to the modest:
“GREAT SUCCESS = SOME TALENT + A LOT OF LUCK (Nobel Laureate Danny Kahneman)

Here’s the one I found most thought provoking (haha, get it?), from Steven Pinker: