Quotes

I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Adequacy is sufficient.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.