The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

Greatness always inspires you to be great.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.