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

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

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.

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.

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.

I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation’s freight rail system create many problems.

The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don’t care! If they’re offended by the truth, that’s their issue!

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don’t deal with ourselves and don’t deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.

Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don’t hide from them.

The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…

You can’t win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60’s person or you’ve sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60’s are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they’ll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.