My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.