One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
