You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Always deliver more than expected.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Leo: “I can’t believe I thought you were hot.” Khione’s face turned red. “Hot? You dare insult me? I am cold, Leo Valdez. Very, very cold.

The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.