Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

When pretending starts, growth stops

And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago.

Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.