We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

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.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Prophets foretell the future

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.