If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.