We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

For with god nothing shall be impossible.

There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres.

True happiness is a state of being, not one of doing or having.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium.

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.