Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.