There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.