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

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

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.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

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.

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

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.