If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

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.

Is it a coincidence that success follows those who hand out its credit to their parents or teachers. Ironically, the converse is true as well.

He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious!

I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoonsWithout tempering my amazementKnowing all beauty eventually dies.

You have to know why you get up every morning.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.