On the lighter side of things, the following are famous learning or eLearning quotes I thought were interesting.

"The next big killer application on the internet is going to be education. Education over the internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail usage look like a rounding error."
John Chambers, CEO
Cisco Systems

"An organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage."
Jack Welch, CEO
General Electric

"Online learning will rapidly become one of the most cost-effective ways to educate the world's expanding workforce."
Jack Messman
Pricewaterhouse Cooper

"You have to stop worrying about all the training metrics of how many people you trained and what your completion rate is. Only training people care about those numbers. You wouldn't walk into the boardroom and have that discussion. They'd fall asleep or throw you out. The best thing you could do is to imagine the CEO and the senior staff - what do they talk about? They don't talk about training. They talk about sales. They talk about customer satisfaction. They talk about inventory. Those are the problems training people have to solve in order to move from the classroom to the boardroom."
Tom Kelly
Cisco Systems

"You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it."
Seymour Papert

"Companies will never have a truly sustainable advantage that's based on products or prices. You need to focus on the rate at which people learn. It's the learning speed of the slowest many, not the learning speed of the brightest few, that will set the pace for your company."
Jim Haudan

"Online learning is not the next big thing, it is the now big thing."
Donna J. Abernathy

"The current learning model is insufficient to accommodate the needs and realities of companies competing in the global, knowledge-based economy."
SRI Consulting

"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage"
Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline

"We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning."
Elliott Masie
Masie Center