No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.

Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

Hey-hey-hey-hey! Smoke weed every day!

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.