There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

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.

Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow.

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

There are moments that aren't great. And I think it's amazing for people to be able to have some insight, to be able to see the support system and what really happens.

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know.