The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Nothing wrong with believing good things will happen.And if it doesn't, there's always whiskey.

I am not stroppy at all.

The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

Sometimes you've got to fight when your a man.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?