Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.