There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

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

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

Visionaries are limited by their visions.