I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.

For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.