We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

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.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.