Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

From a relatively early age I got interested in business

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.