I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.