We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

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

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.

There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.