Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.