When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

The venture community is largely male.

WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART.

In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.