The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. - Peter Thiel

If you're not allowed to say something, I have a suspicion that not only should you be allowed to say it, but that it is simply true.

Just as the legal attack on Microsoft was ending Bill Gates's dominance, Steve Jobs's return to Apple demonstrated the irreplaceable value of a company's founder. In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. Jobs was an artist, preferred closed systems, and spent his time thinking about great products above all else; Gates was a businessman, kept his products open, and wanted to run the world. But both were insider/outsiders, and both pushed the companies they started to achievements that nobody else would have been able to match.

If you think something hard is impossible, you’ll never even start trying to achieve it.