“Investors who want to increase their percent ownership try to drive down the next round’s valuation.

“To provide effective auditory renderings of information, one needs to start from the actual information being presented, rather than a visual presentation of that information.

“Both Apple and Microsoft are moving towards the Smalltalk model, with the Cocoa development environment on the Mac, and .Net/WPF on Windows.

“Barriers to exit are barriers to entry too.

“Firefox has made huge inroads in Europe over the past year, to the point where Internet Explorer is in danger of losing its market share lead in some countries.

“Allowing users to maximize any window to a monitor has its problems. But forcing users to deal with more windows by preventing maximization [like Apple] is not good user interface design.

“A quick exit with no dilution is often a better value than a larger exit in 5-10 years after raising successive rounds of capital.

“The brain exists to protect the body.

“The frame of mind I had in 1996 is probably the best frame of mind I’ve had in my career. It’s an age factor. I was more carefree back then, because when you’re young you don’t worry about a lot of things. In last 11 years I’ve scored runs all around the world, but back then I had no nervousness, no fear of failure.

“Teens are nearly as competent as adults. But adult estimates lag dramatically below.. What teens do is a small fraction of what they are capable of doing. If you restrict them, performance suffers.. American teens are subjected to more than 10 times as many restrictions as mainstream adults.