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“My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy”
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“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.”
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“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”
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“A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.”
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“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.”
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“Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not”
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“TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.”
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“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”
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“Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.”
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“People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.”
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“Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle”
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“In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.”
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“The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.”
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“Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.”
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“My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.”
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“Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.”
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“Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.”
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“Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.”
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“A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.”
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“If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.”
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“If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.”
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“It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'”
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“Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts”
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“Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.”
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“You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.”
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“It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!”
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“Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.”
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“I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.”
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