Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

I would never say never. You never know what is going to happen.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

But just as was true in understanding flight, problems in our lives don't always map neatly to theories on a one-to-one basis.

Managers who confront disruptive technological change must be leaders, not followers, in commercializing disruptive technologies.

But in disruptive situations, action must be taken before careful plans are made. Because much less can be known about what markets need or how large they can become, plans must serve a very different purpose: They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey. It

The strategies and plans that managers formulate for confronting disruptive technological change, therefore, should be plans for learning and discovery rather than plans for execution. This is an important point to understand, because managers who believe they know a market's future will plan and invest very differently from those who recognize the uncertainties of a developing market.

The problem is, lifestyle demands can quickly lock in place the personal resource allocation process.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There