We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

All art is quite useless.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

In many ways, I’ve been writing personal stories all my life.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.