Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.