Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

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.

as they mock you due to your loss, you rise back strong and agile to win

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

All of North Korea is a jail.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.