We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you’ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.