Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.