I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.

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

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.