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"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely." - Edward O. Wilson

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings." — Peter Drucker

"They know enough who know how to learn." (Henry Adams)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle)

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." (Albert Camus; French novelist, essayist and playwright, who received the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.)

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." (Charles Darwin)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." (Albert Einstein)

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." (T.S. Eliot)

"When you're finished changing, you're finished." (Benjamin Franklin)

"The things which hurt, instruct." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Never confuse motion with action." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." (Samuel Johnson)

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." (Martin Luther King Jr.)

"One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others." (Machiavelli)

"The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring." (Seymour Papert)

"Fortune favors the prepared mind." (Louis Pasteur)

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter." "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que d'habitude parce que je n'ai pas eu laloisir de la faire plus courte." (Blaise Pascal, almost 400 years ago.)

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." (John Edward Phelps)

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." (George Bernard Shaw)

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." (Harry S. Truman)

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." (Alfred North Whitehead)

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” (Aristotle)

"IT people have a fundamental belief that they're not doing anything wrong," says Tony Fisher, CEO of data-quality specialists DataFlux. "That's because they lack an understanding of the business at large. You end up with an environment where the IT manager sits in his office naive and happy, thinking he's doing all the right things, reading all the right journals, and executing everything according to specs that have everything to do with technology but little to do with the business." (CIO Magazine)