Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

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.

Poetry is the habit of making a drop of light in the darkness.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.