Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.