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

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.