When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.