But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

The venture community is largely male.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

If you let all the bad thing in life stop you

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do.