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• Frank W. Abrams
  • Stakeholder Capitalism
• Ansel Adams
  • Fuzzy Concept
• John Adams
  • I must study politics and war
• Margery Allingham
  • A Dark Procession
  • Merely Thoroughly Outrageous
  • Occasions When the Intellect Retires Gracefully
  • The Only Sign of Mental Activity
• Apple
  • We don't even own suits
• Chris Argyris and Donald Schön
  • Model II Decision-Making
  • Model II Values
• Aristotle
  • A beast or a god
  • Entertain a Thought
• Angeles Arrien
  • The Four-Fold Way
• Isaac Asimov
  • The Cult of Ignorance
• W.H. Auden
  • The only sensible procedure for a critic
• Robert D. Austin
  • Cockpits with Instruments Controlled by Gremlins
• John Bacon and Ed Zeiders
  • We Need a Place to Stand
• Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
  • Careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts
• Sarah Bakewell
  • Thinking should be generous and have a good appetite
• James Baldwin
  • An emotional poverty so bottomless
  • Any Love for Justice
• Don Beck and Chris Cowan
  • Ancient ethnic sores belching fire
• Lauretta Bender
  • Hands that must work
• Leonard Bernstein
  • Our Reply to Violence
• Jeff Bezos and Jason Fried
  • Seeing the Bigger Picture from Multiple Angles
• William Blake
  • Art, Science and Empire
  • Expectations of holiness
  • Minute Particulars
  • To see a world in a grain of sand
• Derek Bok
  • Cost of Education
• Herb Bowie
  • Capitalists who worship only at the feet of capitalism
  • Having Fewer Children and Grandchildren
  • The Tautness of this Resonant Connection
• Joe Boyd
  • Chaos and Mediocrity
  • Counter-Culture's own values and aesthetics decayed
  • History as Postmodern Collage
  • Little I recognized as music
  • Never Knew Cocaine to Improve Anything
  • Records we made together in the sixties
  • Sixties Surpluses of Money and Time
• Ray Bradbury
  • People ask me to predict the future
• Eric Braverman
  • Television mesmerizes people
• Bertolt Brecht
  • Art is a Hammer
• Jeff Bridges
  • All of us are trim tabs
• Jacob Bronowski
  • You are going to have to make it different
• David Brooks
  • Life is a series of daring adventures from a secure base
  • Life is more like settling a sequence of villages
• Brené Brown
  • A diminishing sense of shared humanity
• William J. Brown, Hays W. McCormick III and Scott W. Thomas
  • Nirvana Antipattern
• William Jennings Bryan
  • Two ideas of government
• Jimmy Buffet
  • Between Saturday night and Sunday morning
• Warren Buffett
  • It's the rich class that's winning
• Anthony Burgess
  • Excitement from Art
• Albert Camus
  • An Invincible Summer
  • Work, Soul and Life
• Frank Capra
  • To end up here in a pile of bones
• John Dickson Carr and Cecil Street
  • Moral Sawdust
• Lewis Carroll
  • Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
• Michael Chabon
  • A mind is blown
• Raymond Chandler
  • Down These Mean Streets
  • I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city
  • Vital and Significant Forms of Art
• G. K. Chesterton
  • Conservatives and Progressives
  • Generosity Among the Rich
  • Mysticism has kept men sane
  • Taking a Fence Down
  • The cause which is blocking all progress
  • The center of every man's existence is a dream
  • The difference between construction and creation
  • This dazed and dramatic ignorance
  • We are in Eden still
• David Christian
  • Symbolic Language
• Winston Churchill
  • Democracy is Worst Form of Government
  • Liberalism is not Socialism
  • We are Doing our Best
• David D. Clark
  • Rough consensus and running code
• Leonard Cohen
  • Deeper convictions of the heart
• Edmund Crispin
  • All must be held valuable, or none
  • The Divine Gift of Purely Nonsensical Speech and Action
• Richard Dawkins
  • Evolutionary Drive Towards Complexity
• Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
  • Belief in Impossible Things
• René Descartes
  • Wonderment is the first passion of all
• Disputed
  • Think globally, act locally
• Albert Einstein
  • A Happy Man
  • A Man of Value
  • Moral Religion
  • Only a Human Being
  • Simplicity and Complexity
  • The Mysterious
  • The Supreme Goal of All Theory
  • This Highest Kind of Religious Feeling
  • To Give in the Same Measure
  • Violent Opposition from Mediocre Minds
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A foolish consistency
  • The time-worn yoke of their opinions
• Desiderius Erasmus
  • When I get a little money I buy books
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A First-Rate Intelligence
• Henry Ford
  • Faster Horses
• E. M. Forster
  • Only Connect
  • The Rainbow Bridge
  • Wriggling
• Michel Foucault
  • Couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?
  • Push Outward
• Victor Frankl
  • Each man is questioned by life
  • Love is the ultimate and the highest goal
• Benjamin Franklin
  • Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary
• Peter Freuchen
  • By Gifts One Makes Slaves
• Ben Friedman
  • The stagnation of American middle-class living standards
• John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Conventional Views
• John Gall
  • A working simple system
• John Taylor Gatto
  • Prime training for permanent underclasses
• John Gottman
  • tikkun olam
• Clare W. Graves
  • Egocentric Existence
  • Man's nature is an open, constantly evolving system
  • While he was focusing on the inner self, his outer world has gone to pot
• John Guillebaud
  • Climate Changers
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Imagination is not a means of making money
• Dashiell Hammett
  • Successful Planning
  • Thinking's a Dizzy Business
• Yuval Noah Harari
  • A Completely Free Market
  • A Meaningful Life
  • Authentic cultures
  • Consistency is the playground of dull minds
  • Cultures as a kind of mental infection
  • Economic growth will not save the global ecosystem
  • Evolutionary success and individual suffering
  • Fear of Missing Out
  • Flexible cooperation with strangers
  • From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural
  • History is something very few people have been doing
  • Human imagination more than biological reality
  • If the future of humanity is decided in your absence...
  • Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis
  • Myths are stronger than anyone could have imagined
  • No single natural way of life for Sapiens
  • Our Social Order Now in a State of Permanent Flux
  • People are happy to give away their most valuable asset
  • Regulating the ownership of data
  • Struggling against irrelevance
  • The Awesome Power of Culture
  • The World Empire enforces World Peace
  • The brightest goat in the herd
  • The system has been shaping and reshaping our minds
  • These principles have no objective validity
  • Trust in the Future
  • Unprecedented growth in human power
  • When Growth Becomes a Supreme Good
  • Why study history?
• Sydney Harris
  • The Change Dilemma
• Robert Heinlein
  • Daily Acts of Trivia
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The Other Side of Complexity
• Edward Hopper
  • The Inner Life of the Artist
• Darrell Huff
  • Torturing the Data
• Michael Innes
  • Merely a Muddle
• Thomas Jefferson
  • Ignorant and Free
  • Unintelligible Propositions
• Otto Jespersen
  • Little things seen largely
• Jesus
  • Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
• Steve Jobs
  • A bicycle for our minds
  • Good Management is Like The Beatles
  • Life can be much broader
  • People with Passion
  • Selling sugared water
  • Technology married with the humanities
  • The Underlying Principle of the Problem
  • The axis is constructive-destructive
  • We have wonderful arguments
  • Where the Puck is Going to Be
• Ron Johnson
  • Steve Jobs Ideals
• Steven Johnson
  • This strange hankering for play and surprise
• Peter Kann
  • Facts are Facts
• Garry Kasparov
  • The point of modern propaganda
• Alan Kay
  • The best way to predict the future is to invent it
• Eamonn Kelly
  • The Fragile Constructs of History
• Lord Kelvin
  • When you can measure what you are speaking about
• Anthony M. Kennedy
  • The Extent of Freedom in All of its Dimensions
• John F. Kennedy
  • Defending the pursuit of learning
  • Let us accept our own responsibility for the future
  • National parks and reserves
  • Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations
  • The Discomfort of Thought
• Jack Kerouac
  • The Golden Eternity
• John Maynard Keynes
  • Civilization was a thin and precarious crust
  • Technological Unemployment
  • To live wisely and agreeably and well
• Martin Luther King Jr.
  • An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring
  • An ordinary person, doing an ordinary job
  • Creatively Maladjusted
  • Ends for which We Live
  • Guided missiles and misguided men
  • Intelligence plus Character
  • Intelligent guides of family planning
  • Single Garment of Destiny
  • Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves
  • The Arc of History
  • To save man from the morass of propaganda
  • Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love
  • When machines are considered more important than people
  • You have your position because of the events of history
• Jürgen Klüver
  • the biological evolution of Homo sapiens was usurped by socio-cultural evolution
• Dalai Lama
  • Critical Thinking Followed by Action
• Stan Lee
  • We should always be fighting evil
• John Lennon
  • Equals
  • If you'll just rattle your jewelry
  • More Popular than Jesus
• C. S. Lewis
  • The Enormous Extension of our Being
• Alan Lightman
  • We are idealists and we are realists
• Abraham Lincoln
  • Discoveries and Inventions
  • Labor is the Superior of Capital
  • The better angels of our nature
  • The legitimate object of government
• Edward Luce
  • A hereditary meritocracy
  • Capitalism works best in societies where there are high levels of trust
  • Conscious Improvement for the Masses
  • Governments losing their ability to anticipate events
  • History is not some self-driving car
  • Liberal democracy's strongest glue is economic growth
  • Responsible Nationalism
  • The yen to work drops in flat economies
  • What would a new social compact look like?
  • Writing off half of society as deplorable
• Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Introduction of a new order of things
• Bob Mandel
  • Living happily ever after
• Wynton Marsalis
  • Balance is Required to Maintain Democracy
  • Inextricably Linked in Freedom
  • Integrity and Conviction
  • The Challenge of Swing
  • The Love of What We are Doing
  • The Philosophy of Jazz
  • The Power of Art
  • The Undisputed Sovereignty of the Human Being
• Groucho Marx
  • A book is a man's best friend
• Henri Matisse
  • The original naiveté
• John McCain
  • It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible
• Paul McCartney
  • The Ultimate Democracy
• Margaret Mead
  • Changing the World
  • Quality of Children vs. Quantity
• H. L. Mencken
  • Easy Solutions
  • Every Third American
  • We Must Respect the Other Fellow's Religion
• John Stuart Mill
  • Intellectual Debate
• Henry Miller
  • Enemies of Art and Artist
  • This dear fucked-up planet
  • We All Derive From the Same Source
• Montesquieu
  • If triangles had a god
• Walter Mosley
  • A world that is tolerable
  • This faith in consciousness
  • Thralls to group instincts
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts
  • Living with the strains of complexity
  • That community asks for and gets chaos
  • The institution of the family
• Dambisa Moyo
  • Quality Matters
• Gilbert Murray
  • Hard Discipline of Reasonableness and Honesty
• Stephen E. Nash
  • Most humans desire cultural stability, not change
• Martin Niemöller
  • First they came...
• Tim O'Reilly
  • Generosity is the robust strategy
  • Governance is essential
  • In the thrall of a vast, world-spanning machine
  • Worshipping the divine right of capital
• Barack Obama
  • A Return to These Truths
  • The Makers of Things
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • No person in America should be too poor to live
• Ray Oldenburg
  • The Third Place
• George Orwell
  • Politics and the Debasement of Language
• Anu Partanen
  • Accidents of birth
  • Independence, freedom and opportunity for every member of society
  • Nordic societies have simply taken the job of government seriously
  • The US remains astonishingly backward when it comes to education
  • You can simply focus on raising a human being
• Edith Penrose
  • The growth of firms
• Ted Perry
  • The Web of Life
• Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.
  • Freedom of Expression in Business
• Katherine Phillips
  • Diversity Helps Your Business -- But Not The Way You Think
• Pablo Picasso
  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth
• Thomas Piketty
  • A Progressive Annual Tax on Capital
• Steven Pinker
  • The historical trajectory of violence
• Jon Postel
  • Postel’s Law
• Neil Postman
  • Amusing ourselves to death
• Edwin G. Pulleyblank
  • Cultural, as opposed to biological, evolution
• Robert Putnam
  • Investing in other people's children
• Robert B. Reich
  • Public Truth
  • Public morality
  • To differentiate truth from falsehood
• Walter Reuther
  • Walter Reuther and the Ford Robots
• Robert Riskin
  • Ism-mania
  • People are finally finding out that the guy next door isn't a bad egg
• Tom Robbins
  • That Magical Honeycomb of Words
  • The World is a Wonderfully Weird Place
• Brooks Robinson
  • I learned a lot of things from failure
• John Rogers
  • Unbelievable Heroes
• Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Great minds discuss ideas
• Josiah Royce
  • Discovering that I am Nobody
• Bertrand Russell
  • Men Fear Thought
  • Ten Commandments for Teachers
  • The Celestial Teapot
• Carl Sagan
  • Bathing in mystery and confusion
  • Books are key to understanding the world
• Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
  • Apes and Humans
  • Chimps and Humans
• Jonas Salk
  • To prolong our presence on the face of the Earth
• George Santayana
  • Progress Depends on Retentiveness
• Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Only Two Sources of Real Wealth
• Albert Schweitzer
  • Small and Obscure Deeds
• Peter Senge
  • Learning from Experience
• Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
  • ESPN president meets Steve Jobs
• George Bernard Shaw
  • I Dream Things That Never Were
  • Progress Depends on the Unreasonable Man
• Upton Sinclair
  • When his salary depends on his not understanding it
• Vishavjit Singh
  • Confusion leads to understanding
• Baruch Spinoza
  • Freedom of Judgment
  • Notions to Explain Nature
• Bruce Springsteen
  • A Long Conversation
  • The Trick in Keeping Bands Together
• Dennis Stauffer
  • The Columbia Disaster
• Jon Stewart
  • The Credibility of a Comedian
• Matthew Stewart
  • A Work Ethic Gone Mad
  • Preparing Managers to Manage
  • Relieving Ignorance
• Alexis de Tocqueville
  • The exercise of the intellect
• Arnold J. Toynbee
  • The welfare of the whole human race
• Tomas Tranströmer
  • The Half-Finished Heaven
• Mark Twain
  • Do the Right Thing
• John Updike
  • Dreams Come True
• Yanis Varoufakis
  • Capitalism as a Market Society
  • Seeking ways to disagree with myself
  • The Opposite of Popularizing Economics
  • The economy is too important to leave to the economists
• Kurt Vonnegut
  • Myth-Makers
• Frans de Waal
  • God and Morality
• Moritz Wagner
  • It's sports and it's all love
• Tom Waits
  • Monkeys with money and guns
• David Foster Wallace
  • Learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think
  • The Most Precious Kind of Freedom
• Andy Warhol
  • A Coke is a Coke
• Thomas J. Watson, Jr
  • Those Sharp, Scratchy, Harsh, Almost Unpleasant Guys
• Jack Welch
  • Shareholder Value
• Alfred North Whitehead
  • The Art of Progress
  • The wonder remains
• Walt Whitman
  • Set off from the rest by a line drawn
  • The Loftiest and Purest Art
  • The divine literatus
• Ken Wilber
  • All the World's Cultures Now Available to Us
  • An Integral God
  • Art and Spirit
  • Everybody Has Some Important Pieces of the Truth
  • Homophobia
  • Levels of Development
  • The Beautiful, the Good and the True
  • The Left Hand Dimension
• Raymond Williams
  • Most advertising an insane irrelevance
• Colin Wilson
  • Man must believe in an open future
• E. O. Wilson
  • A Planet-Sized Problem
  • The Most Dangerous of Devotions
  • The Real Problem of Humanity
  • The Toxic Mix of Religion and Tribalism
  • True Character
• Jim Womack
  • Lean
• Charles Woodson
  • To simply see human beings
• Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Price of Success
• anonymous
  • When old men plant trees

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