Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Never in history has distance meant less.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.