We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

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

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

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

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 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.