“You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.”

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.

Creativity is a renewable resource.

I’d like to have younger people around me and that I’ll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.

I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.

I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

Creativity comes from constraint.

The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let’s give away a Kindle to everyone.

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Embrace your constraints.

It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.

There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?

I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’