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.

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.

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.

At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?

Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.