“You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.”

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that’s an opportunity to go build new technology.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.

There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

All we’re really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago… it’s just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn’t have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.

Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

Startups often win because it’s easier to see what comes next when you don’t have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Abortion is an act of desperation. It’s an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of ‘best interest of the child’ is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent’s fundamental rights….

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

“to industry.’ Let us change the word, ‘industry,’ to ‘persevering prayer,’ and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.