If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

Satan fell by the force of gravity.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

What happens if I do nothing?