Infrastructure is broken. We are driving the car of tomorrow on the highway of yesterday.
Infrastructure is inseparable from one's relationship to it-- to many people traversing a building, a flight of stairs is infrastructure, while to the person in a wheelchair it is an impediment.
Innovation has been hindered, in fact, basically outlawed in the last 40 years, in part because of environmentalism, in part because of risk aversion.
Innovation is all about creating circumstances through action — paths are made by walking
Innovation is trecherous -- if you follow a new track, there ain't no way of knowin' if the man that made it knew where he was goin'.
An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
The Institution is necessary to the nation — Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
The Institution is what springs up where there is a lull of truth, just as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind.
An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley, Abolition, of Clarkson.
14 concepts in this pillow book.