Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.

Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.

Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.

The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future.

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.

Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.

If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.

When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.

Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.

I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.

People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.

I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.

I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.

I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.

I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.