No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.