If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

Before you know it, you're half-way done with your idea and you've accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.