EDUCATION: Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and Ill understand -Chinese proverb

ENVIRONMENT: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi MORALS:

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.-- Isaac Asimov Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace -- Oscar Wilde
TECHNOLOGY: Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. ---Albert Einstein Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ---Aldous Huxley "The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again." ---AL Goodman The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ---B. F. Skinner Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969 It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.---Clive James Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. ---John F. Kennedy The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ---Karl Marx All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ---Mark Kennedy Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be massproduced by unskilled labor. ----NASA in 1965 Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.---Steve Wozniak

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ---Winston Churchill RESEARCH: The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them ----Sir William Bragg HISTORY If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. -- Pearl Buck What should they know of the present who only the present know? ---- Blair Worden History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. Author David C. McCullough The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ---- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables MODERNITY, TRADITION, PAST VS PRESENT *No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell The living moment is everything. - D H Lawrence Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. John F. Kennedy If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown LEADERS, LEADERSHIP AND HEROES: Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.Steve Jobs A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell

CHANGE: To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey CULTURE Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. Nehru If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. JF Kennedy CHOICE Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucius

MEDIA Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. Marshall McLuhan