... we must move from ... the primacy of technology toward
considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of
organizational convenience toward the aspirations of self-realization
and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more
participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and
pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life
as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and
self-fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in
itself.
-- Warren Bennis
The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward everything presses
on toward Eternity; from the birth of Time an impetuous current has
set in, which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable
ocean....
