Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place.

The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

...Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.