When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Who has the data has the power.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

I won't talk about who I'm dating. Because it's dumb. It leads to nowhere good. I let everybody else in the media do that for me. It takes the responsibility off my shoulders!

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.