Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

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.

Do not forget your Creator in the days of your youth.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth.

Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

To me, Romney is 'Our Idiot Brother', and Obama is 'The King's Speech'. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.