Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

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.

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.