I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

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.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.