You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.

Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there... it is the universe.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.