When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

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.

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.

...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

I'm stuck in between a nightmare and lost dreams

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.