You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.