If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.

If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.