Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.