If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have an idea or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not gonna have the perseverance to stick it through. I think it's half the battle right there.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.