Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

Time is the scarcest resource.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.