Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.