I write because I can’t sleep.

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 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.

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.

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

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

Mutli-tools are like insults, girls - you should always have one on hand.

Jimmy and I were always partners.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.