So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original.

In previous elections, we've had voting stations overrun by panicky mobs, and there's been a bit more obvious intimidation.

The Summer Founders Program fixes the common problem with working at a startup, which is that it's very lonely. You do nothing but work and sleep and no one understands the situation you are in, and friends don't know why it takes three days for you to call them back.

It is clear that a substantial section of the public believes what she did was undermining good governance, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of this particular case. This suggests the presidency will have to reformulate the guidelines in an appropriate manner.

For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can.

Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.

Because hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits.'

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

There are all these great programmers out there who think starting a startup requires esoteric business knowledge.

She was the type of person you just felt was going to succeed in whatever she did. She was quite lively and outgoing.

Then I said jokingly, but not entirely jokingly, 'But not from me,' and everyone's faces fell, ... Afterwards, I had dinner with some of these guys and they seemed amazingly competent and I thought, 'You know, these guys probably could start companies.'