Organization is the enemy of innovation.

A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.

It was giant! We did about $200,000 when our business was in the garage, in 1976. In 1977, about $7,000,000 in business. I mean, it was phenomenal! And in 1978, we did $17,000,000. In 1979, we did $47,000,000. That’s when we all really sensed that this was just going through the rafters. In 1980, we did $117,000,000. In 1981, we did $335,000,000. In 1982, we did $583,000,000. In 1983, we did $985,000,000, I think. This year, it will be a billion and a half.

You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I remember when I had my first real business anything in college, teaching this accelerated learning seminar. I felt richer than I’d ever felt in my life because I was making $8.00 an hour in the college library.

I would emphasize that by improving your physical machine, which includes the brain, you improve all of your performance, and the transfer is incredible to business.

In practice, strictly making health #1 has real social and business ramifications. That’s a price I’ve realized I must be fine paying, or I could lose weeks or months to sickness or fatigue.

"The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging."

"Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages."

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.” 

Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.” 

“I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.”

“I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.”

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.”

Making fun is serious business.