I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

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.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

I have been cut in two.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.