Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

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.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

During a heat wave every dude stinks.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?