There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.