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

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

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.

The mystery of life is the moment.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.