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

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.

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

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.

Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.

Lust and love. They both put a fire in your damn shorts.

Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.