You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.

We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.

You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

I'm always prepared for the worst.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.