You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

The journey is the reward

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.