The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

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.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Ebooks had to happen.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.