It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.