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

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 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.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.