When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.