The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.

Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.

The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

Nothing will replace good journalism.