Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
We work to stop thinking about sex and worrying about death.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.
One of the reasons I believe in God is that there is no other explanation for Apple's continuous survival than the existence of God.
Steve jobs doesn't say, ‘When you buy an iPhone, you buy $188 of parts, built in China where lots of people commit suicide…and you're saddled with AT&T, the worst wireless network in America. Jobs doesn't tell you that…he sells a dream.
I think if you plan too far ahead, you are missing things.... We didn't even have the iPhone 5 years ago!
Don't wait for permission to make your art.
Hippies: get off your zen ideals and start focusing on business models that generate revenue.
I look at only two things when angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users?
How about we do something that matters instead of just sending people more coupon codes?
More data is created in 48 hrs than was created from the beginning of time to 2003.
Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first, brands need to do that.
Old Spice's campaign is an example of what not to do in the social space.
There is no such thing as a "social media campaign".
When someone says something nice about you, and you retweet it, you're bragging!
Caring is scalable now.
You will love brands when they love you first.
We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
I wrote a letter to my dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it so I crossed it out and wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, dad - there's a lot of shit you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away.
One of the universal rules of happiness is: Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
You can have the project: Done On Time Done On Budget Done Properly Pick two.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.