Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.