John Doerr Quotes (16 Quotes)

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.

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

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.

But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

We always prefer that the money be used to build the company,

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

Joe's right, China's very important. I'm not sure we can't collaborate with them, and seeing China succeed is probably more important than trying to to compete with them.

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

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

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.

The remarkable thing to me is they've established quite an unimaginable collection of great brands. Not just images, but brands.

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

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.

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.

Cafe Press doesn't offer custom postage, just for starters. There are just not many people approved by the U.S. Postal Service to make custom postage.