Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.