I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops

You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.

Not feeling broody, as such. Just happy to see my sister have such a beautiful kid.

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

Stay away from the ropes

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.