People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Bellybuttons are our link with the past.

At times in life you must rediscover your footing.

Love is an attraction. It draws one person to another even though they are a thousand miles apart.

To the poor memories of drunks, ' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.

Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

Irony takes nothing away from pathos.

The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.