What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.