Passion is born of vague hopes.

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

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

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

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

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