 Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years. |
| The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate. |
| One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. |
| Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind. |
| One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. Topics: Computer |
| You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities. |
| If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point. |
| My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor. |
| So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles. |
| I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start. |
| I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line. |
| From a relatively early age I got interested in business. |
| I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research. |
| But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen. |
