Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.