The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

All my life, people have been underestimating me.

Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.