In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

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.

Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

Nobody will tell me what I can or I cannot do.