I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.