It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.