In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues.

Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.

I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

I am the man who keeps his words.

India has the best opportunity ahead of us.

I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.

If I go to the department store, I get no excitement: I can buy the entire department store instead of one bag. So I lost excitement of shopping.

It's actually sad to be rich.

I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

I always take bold moves. So it can have great return but with great risk.

Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.

Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.

When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.

Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.

Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.

God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.

We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams.

Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.

The year 2000, I was the richest for three days. So I know up and down.

Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.

Uber has to design for the global platform.

Those who rule chips will rule the entire world.

We feel a brand should be free.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world - and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about 20 years.

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

Resignation was the defining condition of Soviet life.

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who positions himself like that.

Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was also an agent of the secret police in Russia.

Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s: being gay was no longer criminal or shameful, but it was still not a topic for polite conversation or public discussion.

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to citizens. The more credible hypothesis, I think, is that there is a kind of trauma, a social trauma that is passed on from generation to generation.

I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women's rights and civil rights and LGBT rights than conversations about Russian interference.

Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by his side at all times, to keep the machine running.

I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political journalist, so I'll edit a popular science magazine. This will be my salvation, and I'll emerge with my integrity intact. That didn't even happen.

I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be exactly the monster that I thought he was.

Russians didn't elect Trump. Even if there was collusion, even if every hypothesis that has - that is at play in the Russia investigation is proved, still, Americans elected Trump, and he is president.

Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.

It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.

There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every reason to suspect that Trump was going to create an adversarial relationship and that people were going to be faced with the impossible dilemma between sort-of-complicity and access.