Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.

You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

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