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“There is nothing more satisfying to me,” he said, “than to create a complete self-contained world when a computer is controlling it.”
― Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

“His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.”
― Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

“We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then laughed. 'Except for us. One asshole in the middle.”
― Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

“The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.

If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.”
― Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days