I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

Chance favors the connected mind.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Gabriel drew the strength up his calves and thighs to spin himself in a dizzying turn. Most angels didn’t take the time to train their legs, but Gabriel wasn’t like most angels.

I like playing around with the words

Most of all I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.