I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".