Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.