Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

She broke my heart over and over, day after day, but I love her.

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.