Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

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.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.