This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.