Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

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.

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.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.