I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

I'm a pollster by trade, so I'm into things that are actually quantifiable.

Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

I love you, Mira…my Mate. My life. You’re my everything.