Born on May 5th

"In the field of creativity & art, to create is to take a leap of faith into the quiet canvas of your own imagination."

"Art is the expression of our deepest questions, painted in colors that words cannot reach. As a scientist & scholar, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Every act of creation begins with a willing heart and the courage to make a mistake."

"I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year."

"What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community."

"At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values."

"I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration."

"Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world."

"When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root."

"Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause."

"I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me."

"The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the good parts of it. You want the part where people see you as just a collection of positive things and nothing else."

"I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed."

"YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized."

"I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself."

"I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way."

"My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company."

"The complexity and nuance of YouTube's culture, creators, drama, genres, styles, and memes is what makes it wonderful for people on the inside, but it is also a wall that keeps people on the outside."

"The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions."

"Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site)."

"I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out."

"I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing."

"You're going to make decisions that are not in your best financial interest because they make you happier or more fulfilled or because of your values. You're going to do that because you're a good, smart person."

"Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck."

"The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively."

"We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther."

"On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I've got money, I'm a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does."

"I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was necessary for, that no-one else could write."

"Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet."

"Podcasts, and the way they are distributed, are extremely simple technologically. Indeed, 'RSS,' the feed protocol that connects podcast apps to the audio files that they need, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication.'"