The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.

You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

I want people to be able to relate to the music, to enjoy the music, in a sense of it being fun and interesting and maybe kind of quirky. I want people to be impacted by the story.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.