Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.