Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

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.

The glorious gift of a new year is sacred blessing.

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.