Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming

Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

I eat a lot of ice cream, chocolate, and cookies, and I drink rosé champagne.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.