Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

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.