If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.
I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.
Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!
I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.
I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.
If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.
I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.
My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.
If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.
