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

One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'

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

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.

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

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.

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