We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

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

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.

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.

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

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.