“A quick exit with no dilution is often a better value than a larger exit in 5-10 years after raising successive rounds of capital.

“The brain exists to protect the body.

“The frame of mind I had in 1996 is probably the best frame of mind I’ve had in my career. It’s an age factor. I was more carefree back then, because when you’re young you don’t worry about a lot of things. In last 11 years I’ve scored runs all around the world, but back then I had no nervousness, no fear of failure.

“Teens are nearly as competent as adults. But adult estimates lag dramatically below.. What teens do is a small fraction of what they are capable of doing. If you restrict them, performance suffers.. American teens are subjected to more than 10 times as many restrictions as mainstream adults.

“What gets measured gets managed.

“It is possible to niche market and mass sell.. the target is not the market.

“Think about the competition when talking to your customers, not when talking to yourselves. Don’t anthropomorphize the problem. Focus on the problem space, not the people that populate it.

“Recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.

Hunter-gatherers enjoyed a varied diet, while early farmers obtained most of their food from one or a few starchy crops. The farmers gained cheap calories at the cost of poor nutrition.

Because of dependence on a limited number of crops, farmers ran the risk of starvation if one crop failed.

The mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together in crowded societies, many of which then carried on trade with other crowded societies, led to the spread of parasites and infectious disease.

Besides malnutrition, starvation, and epidemic diseases, farming helped bring another curse upon humanity: deep class divisions. Only in a farming population could a healthy, non-producing élite set itself above the disease-ridden masses.

Farming may have encouraged inequality between the sexes, as well. Freed from the need to transport their babies during a nomadic existence, and under pressure to produce more hands to till the fields, farming women tended to have more frequent pregnancies than their hunter-gatherer counterparts–with consequent drains on their health.

Modern hunter-gatherers have at least as much free time as do farmers.

Bands of farmers outbred and then drove off or killed the bands that chose to remain hunter-gatherers, because a hundred malnourished farmers can still outfight one healthy hunter.

“Why isn’t everyone beautiful, smart and healthy? Genes that are good for males are bad for females and, perhaps, vice versa.

“In contrast to Gigya, ClearSpring is open to any developer and focuses on widgetizing content, not easily posting them to social sites.