We Like To Believe We Can Break

For The First Time In History We Can Work Backward From Our Imagination Rather Than Forward From Our Past.

I Live A Half Mile From The San Andreas Fault - A Fact That Bubbles Up Into My Consciousness Every Time Some Other Part Of The World Experiences An Earthquake. I Sometimes Wonder Whether This Subterranean Sense Of Impending Disaster Is At Least Partly Responsible For Silicon Valley's Feverish, Get-it-done-yesterday Work Norms.

One Doesn't Have To Be A Marxist To Be Awed By The Scale And Success Of Early-20th-cent Ury Efforts To Transform Strong-willed Human Beings Into Docile Employees.

Remarkable Contributions Are Typically Spawned By A Passionate Commitment To Transcendent Values Such As Beauty, Truth, Wisdom, Justice, Charity, Fidelity, Joy, Courage And Honor.

The Problem With The Future Is That It Is Different, If You Are Unable To Think Differently, The Future Will Always Arrive As A Surprise.