Yuri Milner Quotes

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• The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook…
• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able…
• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
• I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
• There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
• I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the…
• Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis…
• It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
• It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.
• There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
• I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life…
• The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able…
• The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,'…
• The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need…
• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and…
• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
• Google never knew how successful key words would be.
• Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that…
• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be…

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