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Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe.

One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war.

Much of that which passes for conversation these days is the lobbing of small bombs of dogma and little clots of banality at one another.

If we examine with clear eyes what we have done to the majority of people on earth, to the earth itself, and to all other forms of life thereon, we can only hope that there are no gods, or if there are, that they are not just.

Ideas are so transcendent and alive compared to language that thousands of variations of each may be written without fully capturing any.

It won’t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Just as bad money drives out good, the broad, deep, inclusive renaissance mind is being driven out by the narrow, specialized, technical mind.

The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.

There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species – that means all known and recorded information – is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

If you’re in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It’s about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Community is composed of that which we don’t attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We never fully understand what we have been told until we experience it. Learning not embedded in experience is forever crippled. Unfortunately, our present society is schooled, not educated.

Certainty is the place where questions go to die.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data – the lowest cognitive form – has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to others, ever.

If you think you can’t, why think.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea – the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them; of their character, judgements, acts and efforts.

If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Only fools worship their tools.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

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