Visionaries are limited by their visions.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.