What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.