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

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.

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.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.