I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.