I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.

Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.

Give your all in the Here and Now, with all of your heart

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.