If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

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.

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.

Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.

As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?

You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.

TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.