The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Who has the data has the power.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

I take it upon myself to get motivated. I know when I have a bad game. It's something I think about myself when it happens, and I don't need someone to tell me I didn't do this or didn't do that.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.