A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

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.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

Today I’m going to pretend I’m dead. I wonder if anyone will notice." - excerpt from: freefalling

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.