I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

Pursue your dreams with all your might and soul.

We mustn't speak of nightmares here, girly. Evil feeds on 'em, don't ya know it." Mr Trinozka (character)

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.