Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

I see myself as an entertainer.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

I write because I can’t sleep.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Action is the mother of creation.

Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.