“Organic startup ideas usually don’t seem like startup ideas at first.” — Paul Graham
“Many people thought of us as a bunch of idiots with lava lamps.” — Eric Schmidt
“Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative idea as stupid, because if it was a good idea, somebody would have already done it.” — Ben Horowitz
“The past doesn’t matter too much when it comes to valuing companies. It’s all about what is going to happen in the future.” — Fred Wilson
“In my lives, I’ve often found that being crazy isn’t such a bad thing.” — Fred Seibert
“My view of building startups is that it is somewhere between impossible and almost impossible, so you want all the help you can get.” — David Weiden
“Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.” — Steve Jobs
“I had never been interested in being ‘in business’. I’ve been interested in creating things.” — Richard Branson
“My brain is wired to self-destruct after spending too much time doing the same one thing. So I end up with a lot of very different, seemingly random skills.” — Philip “Pud” Kaplan
“Web projects don’t have to be original, but if they do something really well, it’s beautiful.” — Anthony Volodkin