If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

People who solve problems are happier.

We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.