The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Any time is a good time to start a company.

As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Cohesion is the bane of effective independence.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

A person who wants nothing fears nothing.

Why do they call it the restroom? Is there anybody just resting in this room?

One plus one equals both.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.