So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

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

China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

Innovation accelerates and compounds.

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

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.