If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.
Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.
Art is an adventure that never seems to end.
Courage and confidence are practical necessities. . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.
Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.
You are what you think. . . geez, that's frightening.