The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

We in middle age require adventure.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light

Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn't think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies