Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.

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.

He cannot ravish. He can only woo.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.