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

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

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

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.

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

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.