Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Life becomes a dilemma when you are living a purposeless and goalless life

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'

Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.