Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

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

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

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

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.