[L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs—meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.

For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse—no question about it.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.