The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

My life has changed in almost every way but I couldn’t be more grateful. I couldn’t be happier - I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.