Quotes About Insight

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

Every day, I discover something utterly unbelievable when I play.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

I think I would want to be a therapist or sociologist. I love talking to people about their relationships and life problems, understanding where it comes from, and giving insight that's helpful. Also, it would be fun to just marry rich and vacation a lot. That's my real second choice.

Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take away something from any mistake that you made in life, so it's not been in vain.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

I just think it's crazy that we don't think that the youth are valid. They're the ones who really know what's going on.

That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It's really important to get user validation early and often.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.

A lot of the books that have been written about Silicon Valley are really good. Michael Malone's books are incredible. I think his 'Infinite Loop' is the best book that's been written about Apple.

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.