Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.

Be cheerful!

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Don't cater to stupidity.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.