More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

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 the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

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.

We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

Better be a chameleon to face this ever changing world.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.