Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

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.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Stand up and let the world hear your roar, now spread your wings and begin to soar.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.