Quotes from John Doerr

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

If the reason you're taking on a mission is for the money you'll make, I believe you'll fail.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets.

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.