You can't live life without an eraser.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.