The great companies get built by their founders

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

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

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

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

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.