Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Always deliver more than expected.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.