I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn’t have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he’s getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Words are loaded pistols.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Language is the dress of thought.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Tell the children the truth.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.