If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

And without delay, turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

I'm worried about everything at all times.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.