Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.

An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Joy makes the longest journey too short.

The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.

You don't automatically sprout angel wings when you get to the other side - you grow them here.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.