No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.

We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.

You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.

Pursue your dreams with all diligence.

Compared to Eternity, The seconds of "Now" are more valuable than all the money and valuables in the world combined.

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.