People don't rise from nothing.

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.

Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding. I think he is really obsessed with the idea.

You have to be taught to hate.

If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.