A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.