You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

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.

We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

I wouldn't give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don't take any of it too seriously.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.