There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.