Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

I enjoy not being a public company.

I don't waste time being depressed.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.