You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. – Walter Lippmann
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. – Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didnt think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. – Steve Ballmer