Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

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.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.

Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase.

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time