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Always make new mistakes.
Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.
The best investor is your customer.
I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.
A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
It offends me when people do useless work.
I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
My parents are both scientists. They like order.
Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.
The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them.
I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.
That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.
Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.
Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.
Normal people with normal lives are not going to ask for sugar-free yogurt. They just take the stuff with sugar in it.
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.
My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.
The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.
People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.
The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.
You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
I have had the same apartment in New York City for almost 40 years but have actually lived in it for less than half of that time, owing to a busy travel schedule.
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.
If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.