My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.