We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

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

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.