“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

“If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.”

“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”

“I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.”

“You can't trust machines. You can't trust people.”

“It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one”