I never thought I was a very good manager.

The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.