"By the way, the combined cash flow of Spot Runner, LinkedIn and Facebook is less than that of one Costco store."

— Todd Dagres
General Partner, Spark Capital

[Source: WSJ, Dec. 27, 2006]

"It is a strange juxtaposition: BitTorrent, with 35 employees, and the company whose dominance in video sales is so threatened by online file trading: 1.8-million-employee WalMart."

"The Internet safe harbor applies in this case...The site is responsible for removing unauthorized copies of copyrighted content, but copyright holders are responsible for notifying the sites."

"Even Google can't get it right. I'm hoping that the founders of YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen realize that they may be subtle geniuses insofar as ease-of-use is concerned. I want to see more from these two, no matter what happens to YouTube."

[Source: MarketWatch, August 10, 2006]

"Checking your watch is becoming as much a part of the moviegoing experience as popcorn and soda".

"I wish we had invented Google."

"The world does not need more blogs."

"The new prime time is during the day in the office."

"That's what the Internet is all about, people in funny hats making things that people like."

"The same DNA that disrupted the telecom industry is well on its way to totally revolutionizing the way the TV, film, and broadcast industry is going to be."

"I continue to be pissed off, outraged, and feel very very bad about it. But you have to follow the laws of the country you're in."

"I think it's interesting that the expectations of people with respect to what happens to their data seems to be different than what is actually happening."

"M&A as a method to acquire traffic has not historically worked…It's a bad business strategy, and it's not consistent with Google's values and business strategy culture..."

"I don't think the internet has ever been perfectly equal or neutral. There has always been some level of inequality."

"If anybody says they've figured this out right now, they haven't."

"It's Mr. Potato Head plus Play-Doh plus an erector set."

"Net Neutrality would result in an increasingly unreliable Internet as more and more high-bandwidth applications contest for space on networks that nobody would have an incentive to expand."

"The thought of Congress legislating without understanding this issue scares me."

"Piracy in these countries is largely the result of a lack of political will to confront the problem."