This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.