“Without passion, any rational person would give up!”

It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

Let’s go invent tomorrow.

To go forward you have to leave something behind.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right

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.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

He who is brave is free.

Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.