I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a character. That's why I'm an actor.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

A watered down gospel is no gospel at all

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

We all sang the songs of peace

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.