If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed.

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

I write music. I'm in a band.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.