The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

The information walls are completely crumbling.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others