In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

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.

Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.