QUOTES

Life is about getting more context and seeing things in proportion to other things.

I saw a problem with a product that everybody uses every day. As a user, I hated it. So I thought if I can solve that problem, other people would buy that product.

You don't want to be rigid in your thinking. You want to be open-minded, you want to be flexible, you want to be scientific about it. If new evidence comes along that disproves your theory, then modify your theory.

Learn, build, share, repeat.

The value of a company is the sum of all problems solved.

You cannot give up.

Working backwards from what you hope is true is a simple heuristic for finding what to do well.

Humans know what makes them feel most alive, and then they don't do it most of their lives.

Growing up, we didn't have pictures of our parents on the walls. We just had old math competition trophies.

If we keep doing what we were doing before, we're going to be in serious trouble. Because some new company's going to come along, and they're going to have all these new tools. They're not going to have this legacy of crap from the past, and they're just going to do it the new way.