Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?