Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

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.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.

He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

I know that I have balls. I have bigger balls than a lot of the men that I meet. I'm just a ballsy motherf - ker. I'm not afraid of pushing boundaries. That's what you have to do to become an icon.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

I'm not against anybody having gone [to Donald Trump's inauguration], but, for me, it was not the right place to be.