REED HASTINGS

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.

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

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.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

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.

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

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

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

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.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

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

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

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

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

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

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?'

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

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

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

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

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