I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.