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“An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.”

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We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

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It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

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The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

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We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

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Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

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You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

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I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

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We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

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I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

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