We need to play each others instruments.

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.

Farewell, my dearest. You have but gone ahead...but I shall follow, and run, at last, again into your arms...and laugh away the years that came between.

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.