There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.