Quotes from Reed Hastings

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

I hate the photo shoots.

Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10 20, 30 years.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

Be big, fast and flexible.

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.