“Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.”

If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Embrace your constraints.

It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.

Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.

I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.

If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.

That’s how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.