In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.