“The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.”

Without death there would be very little progress.

You have to be burning with “an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.” If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

If a user is having a problem, it’s our problem.

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Focus and simplicity – once you get there, you can move mountains.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Never settle for average.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence.

If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers.

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.