When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

The acquisition of Symphony Teleca... gives us immediate scale in software services. With the addition of cloud, mobility, and analytics competencies, we will accelerate solutions for the connected car and for a broader set of industries and markets.

Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.