The FIRST 12-string GUITAR I BOUGHT was probably AROUND 1957.

Man, he could SELL. As he liked to SAY, he lived at the intersection of TECHNOLOGY and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve JOBS, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent HOURS in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

A DYNAMIC ECONOMY BEGINS with a GOOD EDUCATION.

As I GET OLDER, I just PREFER to knit.

When radio stations STARTED playing music the RECORD companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record SHOP? But I THINK we all agree that radio stations are GOOD stuff.

So I went and GOT my first JOB at 28, trying to THINK what I am going to do, I've never WORKED for anybody, so I decided to go and write and send my CV off to everyone.

I don't think I can tell any STORIES about how I lived in a van in ALASKA. I grew up in the suburbs, I EVEN had my own room. We weren't POOR. EVERYTHING was very normal.

What DRIVES me is WINNING MEDALS and GOING out there and ENJOYING it.

If you go to Wall Street, there is SOMEONE from HARVARD, STANFORD, etc, who RELATE to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.

If you WANT to KNOW how I FEEL, I'll summarize it in one WORD - TERRIBLE.

In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never DONE a startup before. We ALSO didn't know ANYONE in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a GREAT way to bootstrap that NETWORK.

I am not GOING to FIDDLE taxes. I pay my ACCOUNTANT a FORTUNE to look after me.

I think humor can be an EFFECTIVE WAY of getting the point across, but there are definitely TIMES where I just write very earnestly.

We need to ACCEPT the PRINCIPLE that SOMETIMES POOR people will die just because they are poor.