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Adaptability is key.
I know where I'm putting my money.
I don't waste time being depressed.
PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.
I enjoy not being a public company.
Innovation accelerates and compounds.
In short, software is eating the world
In short, software is eating the world.
All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.
The multipurpose device will always fail.
I don't like to not call a spade a spade.
The great companies get built by their founders
The most important thing is to get on the right horse.
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.
I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.
If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.
In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.
Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up
You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.
The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.
When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.
If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.
My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.