The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

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.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

When I lose, I take it very personally.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.