It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.

Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter.

Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.

The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

The natural order of life is not the thinking and imagination, but living in the moment, with absolute trust.

Keep hope alive to be happy.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.

I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.