To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.