You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.