The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

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.

Daily hard work leads to regular increase in different aspect of our lives

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!