After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.

...losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.