Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

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.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Always make new mistakes.

The best investor is your customer.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

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.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

Loud actions, small people, loud voice, small mouths, loud world, small minds.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

I like John McCain, or he seems like a cool guy in a lot of ways. I don't agree with a lot of his policies, but he still seems like a cool guy.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?