Reed Hastings

“The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.”

“Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.”

“In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.”

“In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.”

“On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.”

“We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.”

“I hate the photo shoots.”

“In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.”

“Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.”

“In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.”

“In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.”

“Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.”

“Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.”

“What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.”

“Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.”

“If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.”

“I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.”

“About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.”

“Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.”

“Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.”