The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

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.

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.