I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

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

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

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

I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

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