An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.