By The Summer Of 2012,

You Can Understand Tunisia Revolution As A Failure To Censor The Internet. And Libya Had That Failure Too. It's Very Difficult For Governments That Are Autocratic And Don't Have Broad Popular Support To Be In Power When A Lot Of People Have These Devices. That Was What Arab Spring Was About, That People Could Express This And Lead To Revolution.

Search Companies, Which I Won't Mention By Name, Tried To Do So Many Things At The Same Time, They Forgot All About Search. They Either Missed The Next Revolution Of Search Or They Created An Opening For A Google To Enter.

Around 400 Million People In The Last Year Got A Smartphone. If You Think That’s A Big Deal, Imagine The Impact On That Person In The Developing World.

Washington Is An Incumbent Protection Machine. Technology Is Fundamentally Disruptive.

I Had Always Assumed That The Right Way To Do It Was To These Engineers, Put Them In Offices By Themselves With Doors That They Could Close So They Could Think Deep Thoughts. This Is A Terrible Idea.