That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me.

Most of the time we think we are thinking

For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.

She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.

True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs

Better to give then to take.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.