I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

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.

You can handle any problem by grace.

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

The fog eventually clears itself.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.