
When you build only software that you absolutely need, you don't get more software than you'll actually use.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

It was just a few million bucks to take us out of our misery, to pay off our loans.

Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

The less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business,

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.