The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

The multipurpose device will always fail.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

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

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.