The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Anyone - your daddy or mine, your ancestor or mine, your god or mine - who bays for blood of "infidels" is an a***ole. And non-divine.

Share your problems with people who can help you solve them or you will only feel humiliated.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.