At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people

Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

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

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen