You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.