People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.

When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them.

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

Frequently in life, you have to take irrelevant paths in order to reach the correct destination.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

The cure might be worse than the problem

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.