Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.

Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

At some point, Moore's law will break down.