The great companies get built by their founders

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.

A decision is not an incident, it is result of hundreds of circumstances and thousands of thoughts.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.

Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.