When I hire people I always want to hire those people who are smarter than I am.

As a teacher you always want your students to be more successful, better than you are.

I don`t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches. I don`t have time to spend on the beaches [right now].

If Netscape was so good, why did the disappear? Why is Yahoo to day what it is? Don't believe you'll be good all the time. Be paranoid.

Most of the people have fancy ideas in the evening, but when they wake up in the morning, they go back to do the same job.

As an entrepreneur, today is very difficult. Tomorrow is even more difficult. But the day after tomorrow is very beautiful.

As an entrepreneur, today is very difficult. Tomorrow is even more difficult. But the day after tomorrow is very beautiful. Most people die tomorrow evening

You have to work hard, you have to learn, you have to rely on your team.

We should stop teaching knowledge, we can not teach our kids to compete with machines. They are smarter.

We need to teach and learn soft skills. Values, believing, independent thinking, teamwork, care for others.

I have a Facebook page and a website. Beyond that, I'm actually a very private person. I'd rather see the focus on the books than on me.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

What I think is a really special movie is 'Black and White' with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, which Mike Binder directed. I got to see a screening of it, and I think Kevin and Octavia and Anthony Mackie and Bill Burr all give such beautiful performances in that movie.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.

I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.