One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

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.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity.

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.

Venezuela has changed forever.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.