Quotes About Progress

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

There are a lot of problems with the Web, but there are a lot of great things about it, too.

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.

We believe PulseRank will replace PageRank over time for the real-time Web.

We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.

The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin; the publication of 'Jane Eyre' - add anything you like.

Television and web are merging.

When I do web shows, I want to do something that is good and different.

There's a lot of opportunity on the web that you couldn't imagine some years ago. People are experimenting at a fast rate.

Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.

When we were kicking around the idea for Netflix in 1997, proving out an idea was expensive and labor-intensive. There was no Squarespace, no cloud. If you wanted a website, you had to build it from scratch. If you wanted an online store, you had to completely design it yourself.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

Booking.com started with just a website, but we've always thought of our company as being more than just a website.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application.

If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.

Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

Models can be people, too. But the only way to do that is to kind of step up and keep doing new things that no one has thought of, from new websites to new blogs, a newscast, doing speeches, talking to kids. It kind of opens a new headline every time: 'Oh, a model hasn't done this before; a model hasn't done that before.'

After 'Wedding Crashers' I was just surprised as to the lack of comedic female material there is. So I had to start working and getting stuff out there for myself.

Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!