Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

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.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.