"If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste."

"I know where I'm putting my money."

"Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon."

"There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times."

"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."

"Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'"

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."