People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

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.

Start going—you will find the way.

In this ocean of time, life is smaller than a drop of water. To create an impact, create a massive wave with the power of your infinite love.

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!