We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

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