You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Always deliver more than expected.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing

Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

Police do not belong in war zones.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.