Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.
Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.
Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.