One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."