“Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God”

“A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas”

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull”

“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf”

“The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a wom...”

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

“Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a sol...”

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it”

“What’s the world’s greatest lie?… It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives,...”

“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.”

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

“There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. ”

“If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own.”

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”