We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Making something simple is very difficult.

I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.