When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you 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.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.

I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!

Everything has a price.

Attitude with gratitude supported by fortitude will take you to the next altitude!

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.