Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

Chance favors the connected mind.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

We need to play each others instruments.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

The cure for a lonely heart is to be alone with Jesus!

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.