The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

If you can dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Biography is the best form of history.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.