The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

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

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

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

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.