and for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don’t actually hate you. They just need something to chase. - Paul Graham

All you need to be sure of to start a startup is that you want to try it to see what it's like, that you're capable of working very hard, and that you know about something important that most other people don't.

At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work, and if you aren't one of them, you won't just have fewer great hackers, you'll have zero.

The advantage of a medium of exchange is that it makes trade work. The disadvantage is that it tends to obscure what trade really means.