Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.

Leadership is having a point of view.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.