The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.