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.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

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.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

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