The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.

I ask for a decreedooming my bitter enemies to laughteradvanced against them.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

People comment, and that's where we are now. It's the way the world is.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.