Culture is nested in context, not genes.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.