I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

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

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.