Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

No one likes documentaries.

In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.