If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Learn early, learn often.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.

Men die the way they lived.

Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature!

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.