“In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.”

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.

Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.

I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.

If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.