Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.

Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter.

The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford.

It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

God is the One that gives knowledge and revelation

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

Hereditary sloth instructs me.