I don't waste time being depressed.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

In short, software is eating the world

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

Everything revolves around the fork.

Everybody starts out as strangers.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.