Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. But career-wise, I'd say I'd want to have something most like Madonna.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

The natural-born investor is a myth.

So eager for eternal damnation.

All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.