"We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best."
- Ryan Lilly
"If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history."
- Sharad Vivek Sagar
"I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry."
"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."
"Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN."
- Richie Norton
"The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed"
- Hadi Farnoud
"For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and..."
- Max Levchin
"Data may disappoint, but it never lies."
- Jay Samit
"A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable."
- Jessica Livingston
"Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it."