“From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.”

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

I don’t think enough people have accepted that the machines have already taken over. They are patiently waiting for us to catch up with them. Our world is now interdependent with the machines, and more entrepreneurs should be working on the symbiosis between the two entities.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum – like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.

To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.

If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.

I’d rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.