Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I'm not going anywhere.

Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!