Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.