I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.

I love making people laugh.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.