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

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.