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.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

Chance favors the connected mind.

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.

We need to play each others instruments.

When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.

He’d never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that.

I don't even know what a room without books looks like.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

I've always wanted to act.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.