“If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!”

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

Always be a beginner at something.

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

If I can see it, it’s a failure

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn’t ability that counts, but authority.

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.

The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

Making people laugh is what I’ve been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don’t care about how I look, I’m dedicated to the laughs.

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit.

I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.