The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

In the end, we are our choices.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

I love my life. I love being an inventor.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.