Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.