I choose YouTube over telly.

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.