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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.
I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.
I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.
Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.
The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.
Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.
To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon