Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

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

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.