Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage.

We can now assert with confidence that high IT performance correlates with strong business performance, helping to boost productivity, profitability, and market share.

Some of the most common toxic traits of all humans are comparison, internalizing anger and disappointment.

The population movement that brought Achmad’s and Sauakari’s ancestors to Java and New Guinea, respectively, termed the Austronesian expansion, was among the biggest population movements of the last 6,000 years.

A leader has to show that he’s real, that he can make a mistake.

Events in life are not negative or positive. They are completely neutral...Things merely happen to you. It is your mind that chooses to interpret them as negative or positive.

I thought motivation was a prerequisite to starting a tedious learning process—a spark necessary to get me going. But motivation is really a result. Motivation is the fire that starts burning after you manually, painfully, coax it into existence, and it feeds on the satisfaction of seeing yourself make progress.

And what’s true of the state of civilisation is equally true of your life: it was always already the case that you would never experience a life of perfect accomplishment or security.

The best sort of connecting occurs when you can bring together two people from entirely different worlds. The strength of your network derives as much from the diversity of your relationships as it does from their quality or quantity.

The best modules have simple interfaces which abstract away complex implementations.