Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

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.

[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place, ' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

God himself favors the brave.

I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.