Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.