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

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.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly

Never forget to express your gratitude for the abundance and beauty of your life.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

Make it a principle for yourself to no longer accept negativity.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.