[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.
I don't believe in sex before marriage. I go out with boys, and we kiss, but that's it.
It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.
It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.