When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

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

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.