“It was a long time ago , but people make mistakes when they think they can barry the past . It can simlpy flow to the surface .”

“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”

“Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.”

“He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar”

“I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes”

“You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice.”