I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.

The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.

The amazing thing about working in social media and technology is that you can get to know the sharpest thinkers from around the world without having to spend hours on planes!

As for where I am now, well, social media didn't exist when I was a child, and I never would have guessed just how much of a role in my life and career technology would play.

Ibn Mas'ud said that Allah's Messenger said: Abusing a Muslim is sinful and fighting with his tantamount to Kufr. Bukhari Muslim

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.