Quotes By Reed Hastings

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

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

I hate the photo shoots.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 watch mostly independent films.