Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.