“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”

“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”

“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”

“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.”

“We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great.”

“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”

“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard.”

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”