A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

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

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.

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

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