Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried..

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that..

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large….

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started..

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done..

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations..

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration..

Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or ….

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy..

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software..

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past..

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going..

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books..

Who has the data has the power..

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules fo….

Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other a….

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of option….

Create more value than you capture..

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how ….

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong..

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with..