If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

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.

Human life never ends..It just transforms to eternity!And eternity is worth strive for.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it.