Favorite Quotes
Change
Expect the next decade to have more change than the last 50 years.
To do things differently, we need to see things differently.
In the old economy it was "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"; well, in the new economy, "if it ain't broke, you need to break it before your competition does." So innovation drives everything.
When you're through changing; you're through.
Education
Just in case; giving way to the delivery of higher education “just in time" and very soon to the delivery of education “just for you."
There is an enormous amount of learning content that can be shared by the public and private sectors. We have a common vision, can adapt to each other's technologies, and share an interest in the same subject matter.
The virtue of a computer in the classroom is that it requires a user, not a watcher.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Peter Drucker predicts that "universities won't survive." The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
We're shifting from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. People are going to need more education, and they need it more often.
Universities will be the next institutional dinosaurs if they don't wake up to the realities of cyberlearning. Students enrolling at these relics will be ill-prepared for the future.
The only sustainable competitive advantage is the ability to learn and apply the right stuff faster.
Learning is the new form of labor....Learning is the heart of productive activity.
On-line learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.
Academic performance of students in the program was equal to or better than that of its classroom-based students.
I was able to offer much more personal and detailed guidance online than in on-ground instruction.
We are in the business of bottling the milk, not selling the cow.
That knowledge supply house of the early 21st century is the community college which almost is like an intellectual gas station - you go there when you need to top off your tank.
We have to have the courage to fail. Said another way, we cannot let the fear of not fully succeeding the first time stop us from trying to use learning technologies to reengineer how we do business.
The biggest challenge is CONTENT! We need to get a critical mass of content, with a wide variety of learning models and UI's to create a sense of there being a real market. This will require INVENTION as well as IMPLEMENTATION.
If we think of the Internet as just another medium we're sunk; We need to think of the Internet as a container for media and a space for collaboration; just like the classroom has always been for us.
Web-based training requires a team approach if it is to be done correctly.
The greatest opportunity, if technology providers can come to agreement on learning technology infrastructure, is to build an on-line learning industry that is based on great learning content. When the economics of the industry shift from tools and back-end technology to learning content, then investment into knowledge and learning material will take off. All of us will benefit from this, and we may well see true life-long learning become a part of our lives.
I do believe that we need to transform the curriculum, as I do believe that community colleges and Web-based offerings can all contribute to addressing the shortage that we face in workers with essential information technology skills. Our failure to step up to that issue will inevitably lead American corporations to establish operations in parts of the world where there are talent pools in the quantity and quality that they need in order for them to be successful.
We need to develop the kinds of policies that will make it possible for students transparently to pursue successfully a degree without our practices interfering with their progress.
Current estimates indicate that over a million students are taking distance learning courses via the Internet and other similar technologies. Investors Business Daily forecasts there will be a compound annual growth rate of 95 percent for this type of online training and education.
The Internet has the opportunity to make education much more intimate and personalized. It is ironic because the Internet is much more broad-scaled than any other mediums, yet it has the potential to be much more individualized.
The Internet is a phenomenon that we need to be a part of and respond to. There's no way to avoid it.
According to International Data Corporation, the higher education distance learning market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.1 percent. Most of these learners are adults who wish to improve their business computer skills and career opportunities. Those schools and businesses that refuse to embrace the growing Web culture will crumble.
Instead of putting the Internet in schools, we should be using the Internet instead of school. A lot of money should go into that. Less and less learning is done in school. TV has taken over a huge share of the learning market. This is not a good thing. We should invest in the rise of the Internet as a place of learning.
The global education market is absolutely massive and relatively untapped. The Internet can reduce the cost of delivering education into developing countries so that people can get a first-world education.
The Internet business opportunity is for someone to challenge the existing university establishment. Look at the top colleges and universities. Are they really preparing students for the Net economy today? You have to wonder what would happen if there was a Net business to keep the established players in check and on their toes. Nothing keeps you on your toes like competition, and right now these folks have no competition.
The universities and colleges are into this because they want some of the revenue. They're fed a lot of palaver about competition from online education. Administrators are just barraged with this type of propaganda and they're succumbing to it. In 1924, people taking correspondence courses with private firms numbered four times the number of people in college, universities and professional schools. This is not about technology. It's about the commodification of instruction. It's not about technology, computers are just the vehicle.
It's not what we don't know that's limiting innovation. It's about unlearning. Giving up what we thought to be true is getting harder and harder.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Technology - Internet
The Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off.
In the next 12 months you will see the rapid dissemination of 'always on' connectivity. Within two years, 100 percent of all business-to-business transactions will be conducted entirely on the Web or will be Web-supplemented.
By 2005, we expect there will be more mobile phones connected to the Net than personal computers. Mobile phones by then will be able to do just about anything you can do on the Net today with a PC, including shopping, communicating, and entertaining. It will fundamentally change the way people stay in touch with one another.
Content will become more important than navigation. Content is the "there" of navigation. It is the reason people go on the Net.
The biggest trend is stickiness. sticky Web sites, sticky games, sticky mail lists, and, hopefully, sticky revenue.
By 2006, the Internet is likely to exceed the size of the global telephone network, if it has not by that time become the telephone network by virtue of IP telephony.
The Internet will spark more change in business in the next 5 years, than in the last 60 years.
Traditional businesses used to be protected by barriers of geography and time. It was too far to drive to a competing store. Too late to go somewhere else. Now, competitors are just a click away.
Powerpoint has a pharmaceutical effect and should be FDA regulated .
If you are riding a dead horse, dismount .
Traditional businesses used to be protected by barriers of geography and time. It was too far to drive to a competing store. Too late to go somewhere else. Now, competitors are just a click away.
Young readers don't want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what is important, and they certainly do not want news presented as gospel. The media would can no longer lecture; it must become a place for conversation.
Maya Angelou
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.