I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

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.

There are some things you can change about your life believe it is possible and take actions. God will grant you the grace.

What are you creating?

A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light .

I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.

Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.