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

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

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.

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

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

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.