Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

Entrepreneurs say in an economic boom it's actually hard to build a company because everybody's too excited and there is too much money funding too many marginal companies.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.