“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
Spoken during a Y Combinator Startup School talk at Stanford, October 2011. Widely quoted from a live audience Q&A session.
In 2004, I sat in my dorm room in Kirkland House staring at a screen, terrified that thefacebook would collapse before it reached a second campus. Every night I thought about quitting and going back to class. But I kept writing code because not knowing what could happen scared me more than failing. If you are sitting on something you believe in, do not wait for permission. Build it tonight.