My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones?

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.

As a Magnolia, you are always onstage.

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

Life is struggle and sleep.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!