Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.

Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.

I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it - basically a systems designer.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.

You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

Conversation doesnt have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values its enough that it helps people get used to one another

The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.