You need to earn the right to promote.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.