Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement

I’d like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God.

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

Maybe one is enough

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.