What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.