If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

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.

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

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

The depth of your network is more important than its length

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

Prejudices are holes in people's general knowledge, filled with negative nonsense.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

We met the Jonas Brothers. Nick [Jonas] is so cute ... I don't think Reggie will get mad because [Nick] is, like, I really shouldn't say he's cute. It's a little inappropriate!

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.