I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

The problem of “Command-Control is that you can control people’s behavior, but not their mind.

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

It's not enough to be against something.

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.