Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?

The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

I care more about an agenda than story and character.

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.