Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?

Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

This is the time to be super aggressive

If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

I am in the world to change the world.

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.

Let the end try the man.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.