Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

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.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

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

The world by and large has to be reinvented.