Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I’m not really book-smart.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.