Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.

Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.

Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.

The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.

To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?

Was it enough to wear the night with me just once? I am unsatisfied.

Hope is my joy.

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.