[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

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.

When we will learn to use our love as a currency to buy the peace, peace will be there.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Trust Him in the Deep Waters! ~Jessica R. Patch author of Deep Waters.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.