If you're good at everything, you're not groundbreaking at anything.

Design does matter. Being a designer is important because, as a designer, we have the ability to design the world we want to live in. So I think it’s up to all of us to design something worthwhile.

If you're going to make the journey bad, then make sure that the ending is really good.

I have one rule: Don't try to write a great letter.

One of the most outstanding characteristics of poets is that they are passionately in love with language—and that's what I am.

Before I knew it, I was writing fifty people and I had written five hundred letters.

Leverage the technology to build authentic connections.

We are not slaves to the technology. The technology is beholden to the ways in which we employ it.

Connection breeds creativity.

How can we design systems that drive us into more productive relationships?

Connections in the world that we live in shouldn't be empty. Every connection is an opportunity to build something interesting, to do something profound.

Connect is not about building networks. We build networks so we can connect.

If you can't make it big, make it red!

Your career is not a sprint. It's a marathon.

You can't hit them all out of the park.

All of my life, I had more fun saying yes than saying no.

We believe that it's important to make enemies.

Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

Let's all bet on the dark horses a little bit more often.

Trust is the thing you need if you want to start something new.

The world we want to live in does not yet exist.

Most of [the time we spend] is chasing someone else's idea. And when I think about how I look at my work, it's important to me that I feel like I have my own perspective, and that I have someplace that I'm starting from that's mine—and that takes time.

Computers are useless, they only give you the right answer.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

It's a niche, and it's good to have a niche [...] and try to expand slowly.