Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Can one man's madness be another's real life?

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.