I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.
Trying to solve the crime problem by building more prison cells is like trying to solve the problem of AIDS by building more hospitals.
There's nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that's 50 percent stupid.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
I think just calling up a VC and saying 'I want to pitch you' is an enormous waste of time.
If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.
Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.