The Best Power Tool and the Survival of Humans
“You know how you survive? You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have. And then they have no where else to go.”
- Bill Gates (Pirates of Silicon Valley)
“I totally figured it out man… I figured it out, I know what it’s all about, you know what it’s all about? It’s about power. It’s like those weird countries man, where the army guys overthrow the president. And the first thing they take over are the ways people communicate, ya know? Radio, TV, Newspapers… Information is power…”
- Steve Jobs (Pirates of Silicon Valley)
“When people can concentrate on whole processes, their work is more interesting and challenging. Simple tasks will disappear, or be automated or built into a bigger process. Work that involves repeating the same task over and over again is exactly what computers and other machines are best at—and what human workers are poorly suited to and almost always hate. Managing a process instead of performing a task makes someone a knowledge worker, and good digital information flow enables knowledge workers to play their unique roles.”
- Bill Gates (Business at the Speed of Thought)
“You can give people tasks and authority, but without information they can’t do anything. Knowledge is the best power tool.”
- Bill Gates (Business at the Speed of Thought)
“Human beings are not the biggest animals, the strongest or fastest, or the sharpest in sight or smell. We survived and grew successful because of our brains. We learned how to use tools, to build shelter, to invent agriculture, to keep farm animals, to develop civilization and culture, to cure and prevent disease. Our tools and technologies have helped us to shape the environment around us.”
- Bill Gates (Business at the Speed of Thought)
“Digital tools extend the abilities that make us unique in the world: the ability to think, the ability to express our thoughts, the ability to work together to act on those thoughts. I strongly believe that if companies give their employees the power to solve problems, and give them powerful tools to do this with, they will always be amazed at how much creative and independent thinking will appear.”
- Bill Gates (Business at the Speed of Thought)
“Knowledge is the key link between you and what you desire. The richest king that ever lived was Solomon. When God asked him what was the one thing hekwanted, Solomon asked for wisdom. God said that since Solomon did not ask for riches and honor, he would grant Solomon riches and honor along with the wisdom he asked for.
Solomon’s kingdom prospered and flourished so greatly that all his neighbors submitted to him and he had peace on every side. He didn’t have to engage in constant warfare in order to secure peace and power. He was practically the ruler of the entire world without resistance! How did he do it? It was because he sought the principle thing which was wisdom and knowledge. When you seek wisdom and knowledge continually, you will eventually have everything you desire in life!”
- Enoch Mind Reality
Leaders are readers. You never find leaders saying that they had enough of reading, especially the best knowledge in the world. One of the world’s richest men Bill Gates says that he seeks to read almost one book per day. If even someone as busy as him reads so much, it says a lot about the secret to abundance, power and happiness!”
- Enoch Mind Reality
“All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,–real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.”
- Max Muller, Introduction to the Upanishads Vol. II.
