The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

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.

Education is the best wealth that you can acquire in life. No one can steal it when you are alive.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so grouchy in the morning.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

My best friend is the only person in the world who could stop me from crying.