Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

I do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with Steve Jobs' departure. And so, that's the context always someone has to put things in. But, I do think that for the most part that Apple is at a point where it's much more focused on scale than on doing new things.