Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of a dream, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.

I’m not a bad person.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.