I want to laugh at how old-fashioned and easily entertained I must sound to a kid today, who has a lot more seductive electronic shit competing for their attention. But a story is a story, in any era. And the best ones, I’ve always thought, develop from mysteries you want to solve.

– Ben Folds

All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I’d never once done that thing in my life.

– Steve Wozniak

All the genius I have lies in this – when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labour and thought.

– Alexander Hamilton

The cowards never started, the weak died along the way — that leaves us.

– Phil Knight

When any new form comes into the foreground of things, we naturally look at it through the old stereos. We can’t help that. This is normal…We’re just trying to fit the old things into the new form, instead of asking what is the new form going to do to all the assumptions we had before.

– Marshall McLuhan

Real history is the story of lots of things happening at the same time.

– Oliver Stone

In our opinion, the two approaches – growth and value – are joined at the hip. Growth is always a component in the calculation of value, constituting a variable whose importance can range from negligible to enormous and whose impact can be negative as well as positive.

– Warren Buffett

The total complexity of a system is a constant. If you make a user’s interaction with a system simpler, the complexity behind the scenes increases. With technology, simplifications at the level of usage invariably result in added complexity of the underlying mechanism.

– Norman Tesler

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

– Antoine Lavoisier