From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

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.

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

You have to make every group you come in contact with better.