Amazon Has Well Passed Any Expectations Of

Washington - Having Spent A Lot Of Time There, I Grew Up There And Have Spent A Lot Of Time There Recently - Is Largely Defined By Detailed Analytical Views And Policy Choices That Are Not Very Good. You Know, Each Policy Choice Has A Winner And A Loser, Right? Somebody's Ox Is Getting Gored.

If You Have A Child, You'll Notice They Have Two States: Asleep Or Online.

I Think To Some Degree One Of The Strengths Of The High Tech Industry Is That People Are Actually Willing To Tell You Things. When I Went To Novell, I Didn't Know How To Be A Ceo, So I Went In And I Called All Sorts Of Ceos I Knew. I Called In A Favor. I Wanted To Come By And Listen To Them Tell Me What It's Like To Be A Ceo.

The Characteristic Of Great Innovators And Great Companies Is They See A Space That Others Do Not. They Don't Just Listen To What People Tell Them; They Actually Invent Something New, Something That You Didn't Know You Needed, But The Moment You See It, You Say, 'i Must Have It.'

The Thing That People Seem To Miss About Not Just Google, But Also Our Competitors, Yahoo, Ebay And So Forth, Is That There's An Awful Lot Of Communities That Have Never Been Served By Traditional Media.