Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.