Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.
At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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