If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the Divine. It must be displayed publicly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.