Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

I write to give strength to my spirit.

Ask, and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.