This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

Blowin' up is nothing to me.