All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

Few men know all the ill they do.

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

I think that's a really cool thing about my line. There are so many sets, but you can literally mix and match everything with everything.