"We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people."

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Source : "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

Pierre Omidyar

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“I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.”
“My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.”
“I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.”
“Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.”
“Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.”
“Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.”
“There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.”
“It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I donâ€™t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.”

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