Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

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.

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.