Creativity thrives best when constrained.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.