“There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future.”

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

It takes courage to choose hope over fear.

In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing, and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Bring the world closer together.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I think I’ve grown and learned a lot.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.

Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

If you actually do something you love it’s a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Please wear a mask. Covid is spreading quickly again and masks help keep people healthy and keep the country open.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work, that’s why there are two types of people today. Those who build their own dreams and those who build someone else dreams.

Social media changed my thought process and connected me to the rest of the world. And as I started connecting, the world started accepting me as I was. Nothing could be more satisfying.

There was a really strong and intense bond with a lot of those early fans, some of whom became what we call lifers.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

The reality in terms of the way the music has connected globally has exceeded what any of us could’ve imagined.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.