We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars, ' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.