The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.