I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

The first version of everything is janky.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Freedom comes from taking responsibility

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.