By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

I think somebody's marketing a thing that Hoovers up your Twitter and it will continue tweeting for you after you're dead. I have no idea whether they saw "Be Right Back" or not.

Go ahead, make my day.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.