Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

The law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws, the existing law is very rough.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.