Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

That's the point of words. They get around.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.