Profit per se is not my motive.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.

If human help fails, God will never forsake thee.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.