Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it.

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.

It's one of the most validating things you can do for a product is go out there and get them to commit to pay you up front.

If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'

The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

The pool of people you care about is going to shift over time.

Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

Love is bigger than government.

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.