“Life is short … so why waste it doing something dumb?”

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

Most people’s major life changes don’t come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

The adults were completely wrong.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? … And if you’re not working on that, why aren’t you?

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Reality is painful — it’s so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you’re good at or else to pick something so hard there’s no point at which it’s obvious you’re failing — but it’s impossible to get better without confronting it.

It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end

Life is very important to Americans.

I take them 8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy. Crisp and clean with no caffeine, and a pair of spandex or either tight jeans.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.

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

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.