So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry