In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I'm good at the leadership part. But I've always said that I'm a terrible manager. I'm not good at giving feedback.

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

I don't do much for skin. Just drink water, try to get proper sleep, exercise, sweat it out, keep it moisturised, and most importantly, clean. That's basically what I do.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.