If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.