These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

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.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Everybody counts—the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles.

I'm single, and I hate dating.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy