I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.
I saw a close friend of mine the other day. . . . He said, "Stephen, why haven't you called me?" I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it. " He said, "How long have you had it?" I said, "I don't know. . . my calendar has no sevens on it. "
Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.