The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

The first version of everything is janky.

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

You can't be richer than your trust in your partners.

Freedom is the most valuable asset anyone can ever acquire in life”.

I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.