We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

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.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

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