Steve Case

“My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.”

“There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.”

“One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.”

“I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.”

“I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.”

“But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.”

“So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.”

“I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.”

“I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.”

“I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.”

“And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.”

“For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.”

“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.”

“Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.”