At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically. And the only thing I disagree with is, I don't think Donald Trump is that. Trump is blow it up for no good reason at all. You want to actually do revolution with a target, with an idea, with building a new system.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.