You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
It's harder to be kind than clever
Things never go smoothly.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have. ’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that. . . But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines. . . well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.