I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

There is no adventure like the journey of life.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

We rise by lifting others.