The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

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

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.