Reed Hastings

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

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

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

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

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

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.

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.

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

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

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

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.

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

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

I watch mostly independent films.

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 don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

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.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

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

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

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

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.