The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.