The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

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.

There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

The liberal soul shall be made fat.

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without