I'm not good at remembering things, but I have remembered a lot from history. And it jolly well does repeat itself. So you can learn really interesting things from history.
In life, people like to talk, and they don't like to listen.
I love naivety, people asking silly questions, stupid questions, because it creates a different way of doing things.
Failure's not an option when you come from where I came from.
Intuition is much more interesting because it has all sorts of influences.
You don't delegate. You hire great people. You help them in doing it. If they do it better than you, then you can back off.
You never sort of want to go over into the arrogant zone because that's really a dangerous place to be.
I'm addicted to making great shit, and I'm lazy. It's a real part of it. Every day, it's like, 'Oh, no. I got to go work.'
A lot of people are going to be able to create software who never had technical capabilities before, but they have good taste and know what good is like.
It's much better to put your own money in. So I was making my decisions for me. I wasn't having to worry about investors and what they might think. And if there's a failure, it's my failure. It's all down to me.
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