“You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure is an option, and a real risk.”

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it’s never as bad as the insanity you’ve created in your head.

The Internet’s a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

We tell ourselves we’re here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

I’m always throwing out ideas, so it’s not creativity, it’s just volume.

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

Only those who live forever can act like there’s time to waste.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Failure and risk are something entrepreneurs should understand well, and learn to manage. Don’t have a fear of talking about your failures. Don’t hide your mistakes.

The distinction between right and wrong (“la distinction du bien et du mal”, Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition.

Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.