An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

In short, software is eating the world

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

The view from above is always beautiful. Strive to go there, but never forget to be kind.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

I needed, I needed...you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.

I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all