Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: "People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community."

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

A monkey could drive this train.