No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

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.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Worrying is like praying for crap!

If you your lips would keep from slips Five things observe with care To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.

If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.