With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.