If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Each and every living being in nature is part of God's body.

We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.