I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I've never even gone camping.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

[L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs—meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.