“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

You deserve to live the life you want to live, not the life others expect you to live.

You must be clear about what you want in your life if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

You can do anything you want to do. This is your world.

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.