There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

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.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

Life and love are never what you think they are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.