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

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

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

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

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

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

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.