You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.

I know that I do not know.

-- Plato

I know that I know nothing.

-- Socrates

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete; it dwells in places others disdain, and so is close to the Tao.

-- Laozi

The trouble with people is that they love playing teacher to others.

-- Mencius

When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.

-- Confucius

I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.

-- Confucius