Infrastructure web services had to happen.
We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Strip malls are history.
People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'
One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn't work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.
I grew up reading science fiction.
