ever the optimist

"There is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful of success, than to step up as a leader in the introduction of change. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm support in those who might be better off under the new."

"We must plan for change, or the University might become time’s plaything, acted upon but not participating in shaping its future."

"The baby, who is still unnamed and is 24.4 inches (62 centimetres) long, was born by Caesarean section on Monday at a public hospital in North Sumatra province, a gynaecologist who took part in the operation told AFP."

"If you’re good enough to build a company that can be sold of umpteen millions, you’re probably also in the category of people who can’t “retire” and be truly happy."

"Perhaps more emphasis should be placed on exploring possible futures of the university through experimentation and discovery. That is, rather than continue to contemplate or debate possibilities for the future, a more productive course might be to build several prototypes of future learning institutions as working experiments. In this way we could actively explore possible paths to the future."

"Open source, open content, open learning, and other “open” technologies, along with cyberinfrastructure, the term used to describe the software, hardware, people, organizations, and policies characterizing digital technology, become the scaffolding on which to build truly global universities–what Chuck Vest terms the “meta” university."

"A radically new system for creating wealth has evolved that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge. In a very real sense, we are entering a new age, an age of knowledge, in which the key strategic resource necessary for prosperity has become knowledge itself—educated people and their ideas. Unlike natural resources, such as iron and oil, that have driven earlier economic transformations, knowledge is inexhaustible. The more it is used, the more it multiplies and expands. (Drucker, 1999)"