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

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" I am a contrarian. "

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" I never thought I was a very good manager. "

" Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world. "

" The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years. "

" I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity. "

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" If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play. "

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" We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it. "

" This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. "

" The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry. "

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

" Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that. "

" I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me. "

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" What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. "

" There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown. "