It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.