Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and….

What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then….

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if….

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..

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, ….

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too m….

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - the….

The inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind of cheapne….

Always make new mistakes..

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it..

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future..

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

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government.….

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….

Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie..

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..

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better..

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government..

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with ….

We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking ….

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility witho….