Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

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

Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.