You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

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.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

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

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I hate the idea of genres.

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

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I can express myself.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

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.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

There’s no formula.

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 used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.