Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.
Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.
A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.
You can't go east and west at the same time.
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.