If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

Love is thicker than blood, its blind to color, it is its own culture

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

I think I'd be able to get along with Vladimir Putin.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

"That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.