Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

The supernatural does not exist.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.