Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.