“The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.”

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.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.

I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.

In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

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

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.

I’ve been honest with a lot of the problems I’ve had in life. Everybody has problems. They can relate to that.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares.

My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‘topics’ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges.

Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.