“ 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