Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

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

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

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.

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.