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

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.

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.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

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 violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.