People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.