Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

Whereas any political party, and nearly all voters, prize consistency as a sign of authentic, values-driven thinking, it is deeply alien to the hacker, who holds that changing your mind is simply intelligence in action.

Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.