I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

I see myself as an entertainer.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

I write because I can’t sleep.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Run first, ' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Enemies are created, not born.

I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

I'm just sayin', I don't like fun.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

In quietness the soul expands.

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.