Steve Jobs Quotes
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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I love coffee, but I have to make sure I don't have more than one cup a day because I'm already a little hyper.
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I fell in love with the science at Merck.
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The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
