It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue.