"No one cry when Jaws die,” said De Laurentiis to Time about [King Kong] several months before it was released. “But when the monkey die, people gonna cry."
"Virtually every hobby that requires creativity and active imagination is a niche hobby, whereas hobbies that just involve blind consumption are ubiquitous."
"Don’t just go through the motions. Don’t accept dogma. Look for ways that you might be wrong, don’t look for ways to prove you’re right. Think. Express your thoughts with as much precision and care as you can muster."
"ideas are just a multiplier of execution"
"Compared to the iPhone OS and especially to Microsoft Windows Phone, Android has always come across to me like an old house that’s been updated by a dozen different owners and a hundred different contractors over a period of decades. It might have the same basic list of features and conveniences as the others, but it doesn’t appear to have any of the elegance, efficiency, and clarity that comes when something massive and intricate is built all at once with just one pair of eyes overseeing everything."
"Judgement instead of consensus."
"Going to sue customers for file sharing is like trying to sell soap by throwing dirt on your customers."
