The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

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.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.

They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.