The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.