In short, software is eating the world

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.