There is a point at which a transformation has to take place. — Peter Drucker

"The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool."

"The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything."

"Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful."

"For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers."

"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities wont survive. Its as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care—without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis."

"Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is."