“More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.”

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else’s perspective.

Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that’s when you lose

I’m proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don’t pitch every journalist.

If you can’t build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.

The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn’t have the data to back it up.

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else’s philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

Don’t let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.

My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I’m looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.