internet

“I think it will be, like, when we look back on the history of computing, it will be, the key milestones will be, I mean, I'm, this is, I'm at the extreme end of excitement here, but there'll be, you know, the PC, the Macintosh, or something like this, then the…”

“When people talk about how the internet and Google is ruining our brains or our memories I am actually much more positively inclined towards those technologies simply because it, if we don't necessarily have as good memories anymore, It means that we now actua…”

“The means of learning, the tools of learning are abundant and infinite. It's a desire to learn that's incredibly scarce.”

“What I do is I now try to separate my day into an online portion of the day and an offline portion because I found I can't do, I just find the online part of my day just takes over and it will dictate my behavior in ways that I can't even control. So, so what …”

“And when we thought about it and just like looked at the kind of macro figures, we saw that, you know, about at the time, two percent of all consumer spending in the world happened on the internet.”

“I think the internet has a barbell effect, where there are returns to the biggest and returns to the smallest. And if you're stuck in the middle, it's just a very dangerous sort of place to be.”

“Like the first era of technology made existing companies and processes better and more efficient. So it was the big companies that would buy big, you know, accounting systems and back end, you know, mainframes. There's a role sort of stuff and it made what the…”

“The internet is not a mass medium. We haven't had a new mass medium since television. The internet is a micro medium. It is the best medium ever developed to reach specific people, but it is terrible at reaching everyone. There is no homepage. It is impossible…”

“The heterogeneous community really only works in real life where you have a broad enough bandwidth to engage with people who are really different from you.”

“I think what we have now is kind of at the sort of deepest level, what we have is kind of this big fight between people who want to use the internet to basically reinforce top-down power versus people who want to use it to disrupt top-down power.”

“And so, you know, we see kids now from all over the world who walk in and they're, they are, like, far more educated, right, and skilled already to be able to do, you know, a startup or, you know, create new software or do any of these things you know, than I …”

“The internet is very good at tearing down you know, at tearing down these hierarchies but the internet has not yet proven its ability to build governance systems, right?”

“If you mute, block these people, ignore, they don't exist in your sphere. They're not in the room with you ever. They're not in your business. They're not in your friend group. You're not shaking hands with them. So the only way they exist is if you allow them…”

“If you look at Mary Meeker's first big public internet report from 1995, she has a separate forecast for web users and email users, and she thought email users would be way bigger.”

“If you were sitting in 1995 or 2000 at the beginning of the things you did not know, and there were plenty of those, there was nothing that Cracked your mind and astounded you and said, oh my god, this is beyond me. This is magic. You could master it. It wasn'…”

“Anything that can be free on the internet will be free. Anything that can be less clicks, less friction, will be less friction.”