"I want you to write down that I started wearing them [Steve Jobs turtlenecks] before he did. I want that to be known."

"Never trust a man who needs a subtitle for his job."

"People are much more willing to take advice from someone who looks like them."

"The only way to be a philosopher is to practice what you preach—and the only way to practice what you preach is to be a philosopher."

"I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it."