Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Written words can also sing.

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.

We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.

We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.