For the most effective pitch, focus 80% on the problem, 20% on the solution.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.