The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.