I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

The first version of everything is janky.

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.

We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.