The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

The first version of everything is janky.

Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks