initiative Quotes

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.