Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

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.

If one is going to spend her afternoon singing hymns to the great porcelain goddess, she might as well do it in a really plush ladies room. Stupid fear of public speaking.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

I would love to spend time with Donald Trump. I would tell him what I think. He would take me out in 30 minutes.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.

You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.