I really appreciate it when people say "no" to me. I want people to understand that I'm totally supportive of what it is they're trying to do as long as we're all on the same team.

My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

Pacing is really important in an organization.

I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility.

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.