People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.