Quotes About Knowledge

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F. Drucker

In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved.

distributed cognition

As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved."*

In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

The more confidence you have that you can actually manifest things before you have all the knowledge and resources you might need, the more you can potentially overwhelm yourself with your own possibilities.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book. 'I would hope, though,' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading...

Google makes everybody a genius.

Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.

if she was in a library.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't." "Great

Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.

The police, he knew, had already copied the

government leaders made decisions that would have massive impact on millions of people, all without their knowledge or consent.

Not everything can be learned safely in a classroom, Vega. Education is not so neat and tidy.

looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.

He didn't like having to pay for a phone that had Internet access, but it was like having a huge library and an army of research assistants on the cheap. He

Min had innumerable questions, and Chung-Cha tried to answer them all as best she could. "Is the Supreme Leader really three meters tall?" "I have never met him, so I do not know." "They say he is the strongest person on earth and his mind is full of all the knowledge in the world." "They said the same to me about his father.

never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.

CHUNG-CHA HAD NEVER MET a westerner who could tell the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese, much less a North Korean and a South Korean.

Okay, the State Department has been on the horn to their counterparts in Moscow. They are disavowing all knowledge of any of this.