I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.