November 22, 2009
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Y2K Citizen's Action Guide: Quotes

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'The world is working its way through a very difficult period....The circumstances and issues are unprecedented, very complex. People who look for easy answers and guarantees are misguided. (These problems) do not lend themselves to black-and-white views.'
--Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury, Fortune Magazine, Sept. 28, 1998

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'...complex systemic problems...are inherently uncontrollable...,traditional approaches to solving them simply don't work.... They require collaboration, participation, openness and inclusion. These new systems' problems force us to dissolve our past practices of hierarchies, boundaries, secrecy and competition.'
--Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers, Codirectors, The Berkana Institute

'It's far too late, and things are far too bad, for pessimism.'
--Dee Hock, Founder, Visa International

'...The greatest antidote to worry, whether you're getting ready for spaceflight or facing a problem of daily life, is preparation ...the more you try to envision what might happen and what your best response and options are, the more you are able to allay your fears about the future.'
--Senator John Glenn

'If life is a process of discovering who we are, Y2K is when we find out.'
--Tom Atlee, President, Co-Intelligence Institute

'The Y2K bug provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to ask ourselves the profound questions which have been buried by our wealth and our technology. It is a time for us to ask what we really value and how we can preserve the ecological systems on which all life depends. It is a wonderful time to be alive.'
--Robert Theobald, economist and futurist

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