When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

Every day, in which you exist on earth, be filled with deep gratitude.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

When it comes to love, always be open. Because the second youre not pining after a boy, or a boyfriend, amazing love comes into your life.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

I think my parents were high when they named me.