In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.