Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

Music should either move your feet or move your heart

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.