What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people