Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

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.

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.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

It’s amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house.

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

I don’t like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs.