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Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.