Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.