If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

I will close my eyes and leap.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

One of my first office jobs was cleaning the windows on brown envelopes.

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.

A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.