Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

Eventually everyone will give up on you

I don’t regret or fear my problems and roadblocks. They have made me brave and given me the opportunity to overcome them.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

I've been wanting to do a play for years.