Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

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.

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

Fill your life with as many experiences as possible and do this every day. You don’t have to look for something grand

Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds.

In innocence everything has its truest meaning.

The problem was the mask... couldn't be taken off... so much time has been on my face...

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff.

Stupid people are dangerous.