A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

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

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

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

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.