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

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.

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.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

Gathering together of believers helps to grow in grace

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.