Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

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.

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been... It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

I'm famous for being a silky midfielder.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.