I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

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.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

I'm on [Antonin] Scalia's side 100 percent. His death was a tremendous loss.

I am not the world's most confident person.

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.