Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.

After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.

Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

I was practically raised with Christmas music.