It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.