Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.