British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

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.

My body felt alive. I need more. "Valkyrie, " Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. "Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave.

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

Everyday is an atheist holiday.

The only magazines I read are car magazines.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.