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

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.

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.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.