We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.