I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Make it like a sunflower.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.